Celebrate Today : July/ Twenty-Thirteen

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

July/ Twenty-Thirteen

july/ twenty-thirteen

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. –Frederick Buechner

celebrating the 4th of July.....

Anacortes adventures

Is not life full of opportunities for learning love?

Every man and woman, every day, has a thousand of them….

And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. –Henry Drummond

“EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?"

STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.”

― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

You come with beautiful secrets

You come with purposes written on your heart,

written on your soul

You come to every new morning

With possibilities only you can hold

Add to the beauty

Tell a better story

This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful

- adapted from "Add to the Beauty" by Sara Groves

a trip to DC to visit family and friends

melting in the heat of DC...

The quote below refers to daisies but I think it could be about blueberries too!

(blueberry picking at the base of Mt. Si pictured above)

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy