free to go…
Listen to Diana Ross sing Do You Know Where You’re Going To? http://youtu.be/gsA-Xc6gWDE
photo and sources found @ www.pinterest.com
life: acoustic & amplified
poetry, quotes & thoughts about life
Archive for the category “Adventure”
giving thanks for a perfect night
important time spent
precious time together.
important words spoken
raw heart truth.
important choices made
driving…driving.
laughter, sunset, baseball, hotdog, peanuts, selfies…shared
the champagne of living.
not to mention the kissing…
mums the word
of the world beyond this world
where only two hearts can belong
and become more than they were before…
together.
💞
AL
Listen to Todd Rundgren song Love is the Answer http://youtu.be/IjMKz0wCGmw
hello, again!
A few weeks ago I took a break. I truly had no idea if I would return here. I was ok with that – it’s a lovely body of work.
I enjoyed my break, a few times I thought about it…mainly I didn’t….
Over the past three or four days I keep getting a recurring message, ‘speak to the dry bones’. (Haven’t totally worked that out yet…in fact, I’m at sea on it – I welcome any thoughts on it…)
Then, yesterday, I got the message in my soul…time to start again – return and build – and so, here I am. Not really sure where it’s going to go…feels a lot different from my first post 4+ years ago. There are lots of new things going on in my life. Lots of things being moved and removed. Interesting times for me, hard things, as always, still, there is the same, consistent hand of faith holding me, guiding me, urging me on, keeping me on the path of love, joy and peace. The world is a hard, broken place to live in, but deep inside each of us lives the key to overcome the world. I believe that completely.
Thank you for reading my words. Thank you for being a part of my life. Thank you for understanding, or even mis-understanding my thoughts. It’s all good stuff!
Welcome to my adventure!
Love and kisses,
Amy
Wisdom cries out in the street;
at the busiest corner she raises her voice:
“I will pour out my thoughts to you.”
—Proverbs 1.20, 21, 23
I listen.
Amid the clatter and chatter
of my fears and fantasies,
the rattle and traffic of this world
the trip wire pitch, the push,
the drive for the deal
to buy me and sell me—
I listen to your soft voice
humming beneath worry and duty,
steady, its ocean of silence,
its moon of light,
the nearest murmur,
no argument, no decree,
no foreign words, no hard words,
no words,
but wind in grass,
saying all I need to know,
flowing water,
a river poured out in me
to drink, to bathe,
to lie in and float
to your sea.
__________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
listen to Neil Diamond sing Hello Again http://youtu.be/ZnbMHkiIGwk
Photo sources found at www.pinterest.com
we came here
Proof of Heaven
this was the reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little you may know me better there. – Aslan
We are brought places so that we may know God, just a little, better here in this broken world. We are given glimpses, shaded bits of glory, the pieces we are ready for, come to us, changing our lives forever, as we attempt to absorb this brilliance, so far beyond our understanding. We grapple and try, to open our minds ever wider. We try to share, in ways we are able, this new understanding, this life changing knowledge, knowing how difficult it is to understand. We could never have understood these things happening before we went through it for ourselves, yet we also know it is too important to keep to ourselves, and we understand that, IF we, who are just ordinary people, have experienced this, (and we cannot deny we have) then it is possible for others as well.
And so, we try. We put it into inadequate words and we share it however we are called, this unexpected knowledge we have been given, even as we are just a bit embarrassed at the position it puts us in. It seems like it was a little simpler before these revelations. Yet it is also the best gift we have ever experienced and we just want others to know, to share it, to open to amazing grace. As Anne LaMotte says, ‘God’s grace comes to us right where we are, but never leaves us there’.
When we find fellow travelers, who have experienced similar things, it is joyous and wonderful to share. It gives us strength, hope and allows us to open ourselves to even more of the unlimited possibilities which are ever present and possible as we move through this place and into the place where we are so intimately known, so completely beloved and so permanently connected.
AL
Listen to Carrie Underwood sing How Great Thou Art http://youtu.be/3X6IzGDoGwo
Photo sources found at www.pinterest.com/al513
beautiful places
Gods in the cloud and fairies in the mist
The hills in Guilin look like.
Deep as feelings and sweet as dreams
The Lijiang River ever runs.
Song of Guilin Landscape by He Jingzin
Listen to Christina Perri sing A Thousand Years http://youtu.be/q9ayN39xmsI
🌏🌎🌏🌎
I am thinking about burning
About letting a passion for life-
Not my life or your life- but Life itself
Burn away my hesitation to taste this breath
Filled with the sweet greening of summer
This breath, laden with longing and confusion.
I am thinking about burning
About the flame of desire
That insists that how I move through this day
Be more about love-making
Than about the achievement of things
Too thin to nourish my soul.
I am thinking about burning.
I am lighting a match.
I am making of myself
Kindling for the fires
Of living awake to this moment
Of letting Love have its way with me.
~Oriah House (c) 2015 “The Burning”
questions that don’t go away…
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories
who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,
you come
to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and
to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,
questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,
questions
that have patiently
waited for you,
questions that have no right
to go away.
🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂
Sometimes by David Whyte
Listen to Norah Jones sing Things You Don’t Have to Do http://youtu.be/mdyQCRgtDhM
🍂🍃🍁🍃🍂🍁🍃🍂🍁🍃🍂🍁
Photo sources found on www.pinterest.com/al513
We must hold each other with tender care, so as not to bend a soul away from its truth. – from The Endless Practice
Over and over we break
open, we break and
we break and we open.
For a while, we try to fix
the vessel—as if
to be broken is bad.
As if with glue and tape
and a steady hand we
might bring things to perfect
again. As if they were ever
perfect. As if to be broken is not
also perfect. As if to be open
is not the path toward joy.
The vase that’s been shattered
and cracked will never
hold water. Eventually
it will leak. And at some
point, perhaps, we decide
that we’re done with picking
our flowers anyway, and no
longer need a place to contain them
We watch them grow just
as wildflowers do—unfenced,
unmanaged, blossoming only
when they’re ready—and mygod,
how beautiful they are amidst
the mounting pile of shards.
💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐
The Way It Is by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Listen to Norah Jones sing The Long Way Home http://youtu.be/tpeIePQpSuU
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
photo sources found at www.pinterest.com/al513
unexpected Mondays are the best!
💞
Listen to Todd Rundgren sing Love is the Answer http://youtu.be/IjMKz0wCGmw
💞
Photo sources found at www.pinterest.com/al513
amplified
You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
So many live on and want nothing
And are raised to the rank of prince
By the slippery ease of their light judgments
But what you love to see are faces
that do work and feel thirst.
You love most of all those who need you
as they need a crowbar or a hoe.
You have not grown old, and it is not too late
To dive into your increasing depths
where life calmly gives out its own secret.
💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
The Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
On this day of your life I believe God wants you to know…
…that life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
You won’t find glory at the center of safety, but at its edge. You won’t find love at a place where you are covered, but in the space where you are naked.
You gotta take some risks. You have to not only pick up the dice, but roll ’em. So go ahead, take the gamble.
You have nothing to lose except the chance to win.
Life is not long enough to spend it on the sidelines. And you will not have to think but a second to know exactly why you received this message today.
💕💕💕💕💕💕💞💞💝💝💝💝
– Neale Donald Walsh
http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com
Listen to Brett Dennen sing The One Who Loves You Most http://youtu.be/4XwSRzNCYIA
Photo sources found at www.pinterest.com/al513
when we grow afraid we forget
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
I, 12 [I believe in all that has never been spoken] by Rainer Maria Rilke.
🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
How can you not see it,
if you stand still enough,
or walk out far enough:
the light shimmering from every leaf,
the actual hardness of every stone?
This stone says something
of humility and presence,
of where it came from, and the belly of stars,
but it stays silent to draw you nearer.
We are, all of us, even the thin geranium
on the back stoop, reaching up
for light, for life, for beauty,
singing out with the great silent voice
of the immense glory of being,
the long, amazing story
and a love story it is.
Without your having to remember—
such a gift, such a gift—
your lungs open to the world
and take in life, each moment.
Who gave you that?
How can you not sing, even in silence?
When we grow afraid we forget,
we wear protective layers
of things to believe, things to do,
so many things to do,
so that we don’t come too near
and catch fire.
_________________
Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
(I agree, Mary Oliver…hum, hum)
Listen to Mat Kearney sing Closer to Love http://youtu.be/EMRXXBGotnw
🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Photo sources found at www.pinterest.com/al513
life: acoustic & amplified 