We can choose to do some things now. like in the book “radical,” we can choose to do radical things. fast and huge changes in our living style that will produce fast and huge results. i have often thought of selling a lot of my stuff that i have kept over the years. the money made in this way can be used to give to children, widows, the poor. it could be used for radical change if many people did this, even to a small extent.
Yet, what is even more radical is new life and the change that the Holy Spirit makes in the heart of the believer. the Holy Spirit living in us and changing us, now that is radical. they are changes that we can’t make ourselves. these slow sure changes to the heart and mind cause the life of the believer to become different. continually we see our life and what we do in a new light. we do things that we would never have done before. certain things are not as important or precious as they once were. it can even get to a point that selling our belongings and living simply doesn’t seem radical at all. i think that these kind of changes don’t come in a fast and huge way, they’re made over time and in what seems like small ways and not what would be called our ways. i think the changes have to be made in us, before we do things more in the way of Love and less in the way of man. it takes time to be shown Love and just what, and who, it is. comes a time, though, we catch a glimpse of this Love in something that we do, or in something someone else does, and we are held in an instant of pure recognition.
just a slight problem
with this design…
the wet soap sticks to
the rocks
and lifts them up!
great…
if you want to gather rocks.
soooo
looks like i can play with this
idea a bit more.
can we do anything better than to Love God, and Love others? if anything that we do becomes more important than that, i suppose that is where we get into trouble. it may not look like trouble, but, your heart will be aware of it.
all of the other things that we do are to stem off of that most important thing. if we are fretting or afraid or worried about something that we do…or that we want to do, then it takes that first place. if we think about one thing over all the other things because we like to do it so much, or think that we would, then this could very well slip into that special first place meant for God.
we can keep God first in our love and in our fear of what we do. we can be aware our feelings in each thing we do. we can make sure that no one thing that we do gets to be most important in time or need or Love over the time, need or Love that we have for God.
if we get uptight, infatuated, fearful, worried, or stuck on something that we want to do, or that we already do, this thing takes center stage.
also… if we do not have that special Love, we gain nothing. just sayin’.
so, if we want to do something, remember Love, don’t worry about the doing too much, don’t need to do it a lot more than other things you do, do a number of things that you want to do and some that you don’t really want to do, and do them all in Love. and number One stays number One.
if you want to try something creative, go ahead, put that step in the dance, along with your other steps.
the steps will all blend together. you can add steps and take away steps, and continue to do a dance of Love in God.
probably will be continued…
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what happens to us, what we do, and who we are, is effected by where our faith and fear is placed.
something old
something new
something borrowed
something blue
rabbit’s foot
chicken bone
lucky penny
small smooth stone
don’t step
on that crack
it will break
your mother’s back
what is the best, first and greatest thing that
we are to do?
i’m not giving any hints…
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broken pieces of green tossed
in large blue ocean waves taken
washed by water and sand
edges made smooth
full and round
land peacefully on shore
to be found shining
light reflecting
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for one word . broken
shining a new light on doing things that are different
from the things that we usually do.
so, what are some things that you think you would
like to do? whatever it is, take a step.
don’t get your panties in a twist. just do a little
of whatever it is. dip your toes into the water.
to be continued…
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this is the first installment
of that rewrite i was speaking about
in the previous post, a starting point.
since i have a problem with the reasoning in this book.
i thought perhaps it would be a good exercise for me to attempt
a kind of mini rewrite in blog style.
it might help in some way for me to do it.
though i don’t want to do it in a way of comparison. because
i don’t plan to talk about the work as it is now, at all. i am only
planning to use it as a starting point.
i would like to see the ideas in a new light, and what happens in
the process.
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today, i read to page sixty-eight in this book. all the while
thinking that i could go on and read while disregarding the
parts that don’t sound, to me, like a life of faith in God.
i was beginning to choke on the reasoning that s. pressfield
serves up with the main course of simple advice to just sit down
and do the work.
i’m done with reading this little piece of work.
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i had a dream
of red orange sky
where cliffs soared
a mile high burning
with hot hazy air
filling my lungs
i was dying
yet going
somewhere
most people have come down
off of the holiday high, have turned
around to face the new year head on,
and there, sitting quietly in a corner,
are the resolutions,
determined not to leave the party.
there are always a few ornery ones
that just can’t take a hint.
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from week 1
1. first he was . at andrea tachezy
2. starting here, starting now – at transit notes
3. in winter waiting . at faith fiction friends
4. all art friday . writing without paper
5. the nance marie daily . my bit of fun this week
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i put together another soap dish.
if you are wondering why i am so into soap dishes
lately, it’s sort of out of necessity.
we were using a lot of soap from plastic
pump bottles, jason lavender is my favorite,
but, i wanted to start using bar soap again at some
of our sinks. and i don’t want to use the usual
dishes that i can buy, or those plastic things.
this one was easy. i didn’t have to make it, i only
put some things together that i already had.
the dish was a gift from a friend a few years back, that
she made, which is pottery.
i was never sure what to use it for, so it was mainly
something that looked nice. (sometimes it would hold
a pair of my earrings)
i took some of my favorite little stones and set them
on the dish as a lift for the soap, so the soap can dry.
instant soap dish!
easy to clean and naturally, i think it’s pretty.
do you like it?
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Live Music information . by Nancy Davis
Daily short takes from an Appalachian hollow
A LITTLE SOMETHIN' 