Finding the Divine in the big and little things of life
Of the many things I am grateful for today, I am especially grateful that 57 years ago today these two crazy kids (aged 35 and 44, ahem) took a chance and said “I do”. Everything I know about love and loyalty and faith I learned from them, my beautiful and beloved parents. Miss them sooo …
Posting this today in honor of my maternal grandmother, Fern Wright Baach, on what would be her 129th birthday. She was quite a woman: a teacher; a suffragette; a self-taught violinist; poet and writer; and a Minnesota farm wife and mother during the worst of the Depression and the Dust Bowl. She died of breast …
NB This isn’t my photo–just my edit, and of course my story…———————————-/My dad’s family were tenant farmers during the Depression and quite poor–they lost everything in a fire right before the Crash in ’29. When my dad was overseas in WWII he sent all of his Army pay home to help the family (he was …
I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott
The root of joy is gratefulness…it is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. Br. David Steindl-Rast
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein
It is a serious thing/ just to be alive/ on this fresh morning/ in this broken world. Mary Oliver
(This beautiful reflection was written by my friend Kate, and I am reblogging it because it gives me hope that I too can use my chronic illness experience to offer myself to God.) As I write this I am at present without a voice due to a virus I picked up several weeks ago. My …
“The most common one-liner in the Bible is ‘do not be afraid.’ Someone counted it once and it occurs 365 times.” (Richard Rohr)
Found this on Facebook and I think every #spoonie out there can relate!
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