Part 1 written 15 November 2017
Part 2 written 10 November 2018
I heard you crying in my dreams
Learning
I thank you God for morning
For the freshness that comes
With the dew and the dawn
A new day
With a little distance from yesterday’s hurts
Received and inflicted
Known and unknown
The grey middle
When people hit crisis they’re more likely to reach for help, but when people live just short of crisis they think they’re coping… or that things aren’t so bad… or that they’re better than someone they’re contrasting to (which may even be true)… in crisis things can clarify but the middle is awash with grey.
Continue reading “The grey middle”Pardon me, there’s an eye in my log
I find it very interesting that we can take the hypocrisy of another and use it as the excuse for our own.
VSP 🙂
It’s a gift
If someone is demanding forgiveness they are missing the point.
VSP 🙂
Thinking
Sometimes the thing you think you want turns out not to be the thing you want but only the thing you THOUGHT you wanted until you had the thing you thought you wanted and then the thing you had was not the thing you remember thinking you wanted but you couldn’t know it wouldn’t be until you had it but once you did, the thing you thought was only ever a figment that was always an impossibility, so letting go of the thing you thought and looking squarely at the thing that is, and appreciating the reality of that over the endless insatiability of the thing you thought – is what matters.
I think.
Tilly
Oh Tilly
How did I know you but – Not?
How did I look in your smiling eyes
And not see the pain behind?
How did we talk so long and so deep
But still not deep enough?
Greatest calling? Well – ‘A’ calling.
I don’t know yet about the ‘greatest calling’ part of this – or how that’s meant to look – but it certainly has been my experience that God will use my most searing hurts as a connector to others in theirs… so if that’s my greatest calling it is fine with me. I LOVE that God does this… He won’t waste a single hurt if we’ll let Him do His thing…
2 Cor 1:3-5 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
Truth and grace
Truth without grace crushes.
Grace without truth enables.
VSP 🙂
Loving well
“It’s all about love isn’t it… it’s about learning how to love well.”
“We think love is going to be easy – and it is easy – but it’s only easy when it’s easy…”
These were remarks made in a HS discussion group today.
• Loving well won’t always be easy.
• Loving well won’t always be felt as such.
• Loving well involves truth and light and application toward the future.
Interested in others thoughts – what else do you see about what it is to ‘love well’?