A friend told me years ago: “To be fully loved as a little child is to be crowned with a golden crown that can never be taken away.”
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A Loving Mother Lion
Tagged with: a Loving God, Love, Mary, mother love, mother of Jesus
Posted in Families, LOVE, Mothers
Posted in Families, LOVE, Mothers
Raising our Offspring and Ourselves
Ah, to love is to experience a certain degree of anxiety — ducks or humans. It takes energy to keep anxiety and worries at bay. Energy and Prayer!
A Happy Birthday!
But, we do need to dredge out Rocks of Regret, Resentment and Rage . . . to have the waters flow. In me, the Water often trickles. I am semi-willfully blind to all the rocks I have buried, covered over . . . or made idols and altars of.
Tagged with: fasting, fountains, Prayer, promises, rivers of living waters, rocks of regret
Posted in being together in a compassionate presence, Failing, Holy Saturday, Prayer
Posted in being together in a compassionate presence, Failing, Holy Saturday, Prayer
What’s it take to Grow?
Sigh. I am sitting here realizing that I don’t like limits. I don’t like being limited. I don’t like making the hard choices of: If This, then Not That. Gosh, God. That sounds so childish. Dang! It is childish, isn’t it.
Tagged with: Hard Choices, Limits, orchids, pruning, Wanting
Posted in Changing, choosing HARD, growing toward up
Posted in Changing, choosing HARD, growing toward up
A Good Day! A Good Life!
But, then, I am not the one who in the last two years brought the Library up to just about Perfect! I’m not the creator . . . it is not my “baby.” When the Parent App is running it’s so easy for it to overwhelm us!
Tagged with: overwhelmed by instinct, Stuck, The Mama Duck app, the power of the Parent App, Thinking Outside the Fence
Posted in connections, hope, interspecies contact, responsibility
Posted in connections, hope, interspecies contact, responsibility
The Wrong-Side UP app
Good Morning, God! Yesterday while chatting with June (my Spiritual Director) I suddenly noticed a Wrong-Side UP App at work inside me. I had been telling her how much I appreciated her help. Then I remembered that 8 or 9…
Tagged with: refocusing, reframing, The Right-Side UP app, the Wrong-Side Up app
Posted in asking for help for myself, authority over my life, Changing
Posted in asking for help for myself, authority over my life, Changing
A Touch of Warmth and Color
People make the routines and work of life richer and warmer. It’s so important to make room in our days for real interactions with fellow humans — taking, or making, time to connect. Time to hear and see one another. That requires building margins into our days.
Tagged with: Gleaning, human connections, making time, Margins
Posted in caring for the widows and orphans, Colors, connections, listening, time
Posted in caring for the widows and orphans, Colors, connections, listening, time
My Body and Me
Good Evening, God! It came to me Tuesday night that I didn’t want to die. Dying “seemed” to be the “threat” my body somehow posed. No doubt this was a trifle over the top, but I got the message and…
A Moment with God 