— Shauna Niequist, Bread & Wine (via isopod)
Prayers for the Earth: Drew, Lady Flame, and I took a walk along Summer St., in Topsham, this afternoon. We came upon this beautiful tribute to Earth created by a lovely couple within the last year. This really struck a chord with me…tranquility is difficult to find in this busy world… (Click on the first photo to enter the slide show for a larger veiw.)
(via hikergirl)
The wide spectrum of mothering
To those who gave birth this year to their first child—we celebrate with you
To those who lost a child this year–we mourn with you
To those who are in the trenches with little ones every day and wear the badge of food
stains–we appreciate you
To those…
(Source: sunny1)
(Source: positive-outlooks, via the--kel--smith)
The Church of the Larger Fellowship will be streaming its Monday evening worship all day today (April 19) Turn off the news and take a breather for a bit. You’ll be glad you did.
While you’re listening, take a moment to leave a note on the CLF Prayer Wall.
There is a metaphor that has circulated for several years now, called “Footprints,” in which a person looks back on their life as if looking at a beach, and notices that during the hard times, there is only one set of footprints. In this metaphor, God says those are the times when he carried the person.
I don’t mean to take away from the people for whom this metaphor has power, but my experience was a little different. For one thing, I never felt carried. Every day, I had to get up and keep putting one foot in front of another. I had a little daughter who depended on me.
But when I look back on that time, I don’t see one set of footprints or even two. I see hundreds. All the people who mailed cards, sent casseroles and gift cards for pizza, who prayed for us, thought of us, visited us, and cared for us. They let us know that we were not alone.
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Joanna Crawford, from Accepting Help
Tomorrow morning we’re all going to wake up and have to get the laundry done, pick up the groceries and figure out how to pay the electricity bills.
Be kind to each other. It matters.
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep.
Tend your sick ones, O Lord Christ.
Rest your weary ones.
Bless your dying ones.
Soothe your suffering ones.
Pity your afflicted ones.
Shield your joyous ones.
And for all your love’s sake. Amen.
— Saint Augustine (via isopod)
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ (via isopod)
Let us worship with the opening
of all the windows of our beings,
with the full outstretching of our spirits.
Life comes with singing and laughter,
with tears and confiding,
with a rising wave
too great to be held in the mind
and heart and body,
to those who have fallen in love with life.
Let us worship, and let us learn to love.
— Kenneth L. Patton
