How will you know if you like something if you don’t try, taste, touch, smell it?
Stay open! So many things to love in life!!!
If in doubt about something new, remember:
Whatever is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.
Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
– Philippians 4:8
Isn’t it fabulous?
How life rolls out
a welcome mat
one step at a time
with mysterious adventures
happening daily
sometimes the next step
is not visible until
we take a step
into
thin air
cloud fluff
wild surf
or
still water
mystery
nothingness
but when we step
believe
nets appear
wings magically unfurl
the stepping stone materializes
doors and windows
opening wide
without keys
or
knobs
beautiful hands hold us
great stars of faith
will guide us home
AL 6/7/13
Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
– Alban Goodier
bubbles
round rainbows
of temporal soap
surprise showers
bursting
lighter than rain
on lips and eyes
laughter
floating in and around
orbs of shiny gladness
metallic beauty
streaking through the air
rising and falling
dispensing
with formality
as we all chase them
sheer delight
written on faces
where the soft
pop
has just taken
it’s new form
and we have all
become children
once again
AL 5/1/13
Each of us has a mission in life. Jesus prays to his Father for his followers, saying: “As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world” (John 17:18).
We seldom realise fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we have to choose how, where, and with whom to live. We act as if we were simply plopped down in creation and have to decide how to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do.
– Henri Nouwen
http://www.henrinouwen.org/
It’s a fascinating way to live
living on the very edge of faith
stepping out on the spot directed
when there doesn’t even seem to be a rope
trusting in a net
or wings
or something
walking on water
without care
to what others believe
or even what my fearful mind has to say
I walk on the bridge of the faithful
reaching for the strawberries
growing in the mountain cliff
after all, I’ve gotten this far on miracles alone
why should I waste time on worry at this point?
God is always faithful
AL 4/16/13
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