… Consider the lilies of the field … Matthew 6:28 KJV Last spring, we went out to select some annuals for our garden. We were shopping by color, looking to find complements to our yellow and purple perennials. We chose salvia and petunias. I had forgotten, though, how much the rabbits love petunias. In a…
Month: September 2022
Chinese Wisdom
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. Chinese Proverb
“After the Sadness…”
A Grief Observed …
Written by Clive Staples Lewis in longhand in notebooks that Lewis found in his home, A Grief Observed probes the “mad midnight moments” of Lewis’s mourning the loss of his wife to cancer, moments in which he questioned what he had previously believed about life and death, marriage, and even God. ********** From the foreword:“I…
Grieving
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Matthew 5:4 KJV ********** I weep with grief; my heart is heavy with sorrow; encourage and cheer me with your words. Psalm 119:28 Living Bible He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or…
Grief
GRIEF: “Deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement; heartbreak, sorrow, woe” ********** There is great evil in the world. There is great sorrow. From time to time, I am blindsided by the terrible ways people damage themselves – and each other. In grief, I am reduced to, “Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord!”,…
Queen Elizabeth II
There is – and will continue to be – a lot written and said about Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, and her life, but one thing stands out to me: She did her job. “When I was 21, I pledged my life to the service of our people and I asked for God’s help to make good…
Just about “Enough” …
“The longer I live, the more I read,the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire,the less I seem to know…Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams O God, I beg two favors from you … First, help me never to tell a lie. Second,…
Sufficiency
SUFFICIENT: enough to meet a need or purpose ********** “Praying, we usually ask too much. I know I do. Sometimes we even demand. I think I am learning to ask enough for the moment —not for the whole year, utterly veiled in mystery; not even for the week, the month ahead; but just for today. Jesus…
Need
“Need.” I use that word a lot, but I think I misunderstand it. I looked it up and found: “A need is something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants in that, in the case of a need, a deficiency causes a clear adverse outcome: a…