Saturday, February 9, 2013

2/9/13


While we cannot force an encounter with mystery, we can be open to receiving one. We can learn to pay attention, especially in the midst of those daily tasks we do so often that they become rote and mindless. Kathleen Norris, in her book The Quotidian Mysteries suggests: “It is in the routine and the everyday that we find the possibilities for the greatest transformation… Times we think we are only “getting through” have the power to change us… What we dread as mindless activity can free us, mind and heart, for the workings of the Holy Spirit.”
It is in that quotidian that mystery most unfolds… We live the bulk of our lives in the daily, doing the same tasks again and again—preparing food, showering, dressing, checking voicemail or email, doing dishes or laundry, commuting to work- and it can come to feel like a grind, pointless and redundant. But it is precisely because these tasks are daily that they have such transformative potential. Such work has an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day to day. And it is only in the present moment that the veil can part. It is in the daily, ordinary moments of our lives where we have the most opportunity to notice mystery, to encounter it and to be encountered by it.
-Kimberly Conway Ireton The Circle of Seasons

Praying that this would be so in my life and that I will have a heart attentive to God's voice through our days... 


Kids' Valentine Run this morning.... 


the Tunnel of Love :) 

Go Anna! (and Liam behind her...)



Taylor Cravy's birthday party today - 
a really fun idea that they had a lady come who brought bunnies for all the girls to play with for an hour! Needless to say, Anna was in heaven... 

Anna and Taylor 

Anna and the bunny (they said she was like the bunny whisperer) 

Meanwhile, Taylor Huff was at the Pinewood Derby for his pack this afternoon 



no trophy this year... but he did come in 2nd in his last heat. :) 

a great team! 

walking buddies today 
as Heather is in town visiting another friend who just had a baby... 

the girls hanging out tonight 

and the boys... :) 



Cravys, Huffs, McGorans, Atkins and Zubecks-- a sweet reunion tonight! 

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