october/ twenty-thirteen
"Fall's my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with
its last beauty as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale." –Lauren DeStefano
"Everywhere she walked the color
shouted and sang around her…
In October any wonderful unexpected
thing might be possible.”― Elizabeth George Speare
(painting above by Langford Barksdale)
giving thanks for running the Portland Marathon with my dear friend Elizabeth… http://celebrate-2day.blogspot.com/2013/10/pr-for-portland.html
"After my morning run, I can return
to my house, my children, my relationships, and my work and feel replenished
and rejuvenated to make my offering to the world."
–Kristin Armstrong Mile
Markers
"Whether we are poets or parents or
teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we
have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and
trivial may show itself to be holy, precious, part of a pattern." –Luci
Shaw
sharing sweet joy with family at Farris & Taylor Smith's wedding in Nashville
“Marriage, as simply as it can be defined, is the contemplation of the love of God in and through the form of another human being.” Mike Mason- The Mystery of Marriage
Celebrating the small is directly related to
recognizing the massive, Kingdom impact. Kids are forever. They are eternity
with skin on. And we mold them like so much play-doh until one day they
walk out the door and take every small moment of a family’s routine with them. -Lisa Jo Baker
"Walk and talk and work and
laugh with your friends,
but behind the scenes, keep up the
life of simple prayer and inward worship."
–Thomas Kelly
The greatest gift my
friendship can give to you is the gift of your Belovedness. I can give that
gift only insofar as I have claimed it for myself. Isn’t that what friendship
is all about: giving to each other the gift of our Belovedness?
Yes, there is that voice,
the voice that speaks from above and from within and that whispers softly or
declares loudly: “You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.” It is certainly
not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: “You are
no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are
nobody—unless you can demonstrate the opposite.” These
voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That’s
the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection.
–Henri Nouwen Life of the Beloved
"Finally, some of us simply cannot stop.
Period. We no longer have the ability to stop, to choose a different way of
being. Our brains prevent us. Our brains have lost the capacity to slow
down....How can we help ourselves? Practice, practice, practice. And start
small.
We can learn to slow down. Our brains are
highly trainable...."
"Try this. If you
find yourself rushing ahead of yourself, feeling frenzied and overwhelmed,
deliberately slow your pace, take some deep breaths, and focus totally on the
task before you with all the awareness you can bring to
it. They are many
mindfulness practices that help us stay with God in each present moment and
avoid rehearsing the past or rushing ahead into the future."
http://theprayinglife.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/holy_grounds_summer13_web.pdf
the year of the Disco Ball and the iPhone-- Halloween 2013!
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