What if I lived life as it actually is, instead of demanding it be the way it’s “supposed” to be? What if I accepted myself as I really am, instead of how I “should” be? What if I was never supposed to “do” it all? What if my best is good enough? What if “success”…
Category: God Sightings
Seeing God in the Everyday
More Buechner
I don’t usually do this. (Okay, I never do this.) But Buechner’s words will not leave me alone unless I share them. Here are more quotes. ************ “If there is anything in this world I believe, it is that God is indeed doing all kinds of things in the lives of all of us.” God…
Frederick Buechner
Carl Frederick Buechner (BEEK-nər; July 11, 1926 – August 15, 2022) was an American writer, novelist, poet, autobiographer, essayist, preacher, and theologian. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of thirty-nine published books. (Wikipedia) When I read of his death last week, I was surprised to find that not only was he a contemporary, but he lived in New…
Messy Life?
Do you ever feel that your life looks like this? Messy, tangled threads going every which way? Can you even make sense of it or even sort it out? Ah, but God sees what we don’t: a complete and finished product. And He is not the least bit surprised or deterred by our “mess.” God…
Creating
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth … Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us … Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!Genesis 1:1, 26a, 31a New Living Translation Research show that everyone is creative, which…
God’s Joy
I found this in a book I’m reading (LifeSpace: the practice of life with God). It sings to me of God’s amazing creative joy. Morning PersonA poem by Vassar Miller God, best at making in the morning, tossedstars and planets, singing and dancing, rolledSaturn’s rings spinning and humming, twirled the earthso hard it coughed and…
Give & Take
Life is full of give and take: give thanks and take nothing for granted. (unknown) It’s easier to take than to give. It’s nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime. Joan Marques
Sunflowers
I didn’t think I liked sunflowers, until one planted itself in my garden. Now I think they are the perfect embodiment of August. Sunflowers are about hopefulness and positivity. Even on cloudy days, sunflowers follow the sun. The morning glories and the sunflowers turn naturally toward the light, but we have to be taught, it…
Music … Rests
“There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by “rests,” and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts,…
Obeying
My journals are in a paper bag, ready to recycle. My God, Who knows and remembers all, will bring to my memory anything I need to know when I need it. Funny how free I feel. Was the past an anchor, holding me back? Then I’m not sorry to let it go. ********** Yet, my…