I am going to visit a sick friend today. He is a member of my online group whose absence has been sorely missed. He lives about 2 1/2 hours away but I am closest..and I can offer my group an opportunity to offer encouragment and support to him in person. I am a mere emmissary. He is one of the people whose posts I read, who was consistant and kind, in the years before I got sober and lurked around the group...just to see...He helped me to see. So now I want to help him. That's how it works.
So off I go today, armed with Carolyn Myss' Entering the Castle, Joe and Charlie and Coldplay to listen to for the ride....I won't get to spend much time with him but I will deliver a poster made by another member of all our prayers and get well wishes...and then I will head home hopefully in time for my meditation meeting.
My husband doesn't quite get this....he thinks its odd...and risky. But I know I am being led here..and where You lead..I will follow.
This brought me to tears. I think it is touching that you would reach out in blind faith to a fellow human being in need of God's touch. We are the feet and fingers of the Creator. Thank you for reminding of this. It seems I need a daily reminder.
I love your what are you grumpy about cartoon. Thanks for posting it. It is just what I needed today. I love coldplay too. Hope you have a better day!!!
Someone reminded me recently of ONE of the ways to determine God's will for me.
If I feel "pulled" to say, or do something, it maybe is NOT His will. If I'm being "Pushed" or "Nudged" it could more than likely BE His will. Even so, discernment is a gift from God. You may be a recipient.
Its such a good feeling you get from helping others, even though we should do it anyway. I am looking forward in a nervous sort of way to getting to tonights meeting despite the attrocious weather
"But the first salt wind from the east, the first sight of the lighthouse set boldly on its outer rock, the flash of a gull, the waiting procession of seaward-bound firs on an island, made me feel solid and definate again..."
-Sarah Orne Jewitt
From the Bondage of Self Going Sober: June 11, 2007
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. --Henri J. M. Nouwen
So Far Away by Stain'd
And So It Continues....
"There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears. But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them; the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight." Edith Wharton
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Good for you to go visit. I like listening to Joe and Charlie. They are my long trip tapes.
This brought me to tears. I think it is touching that you would reach out in blind faith to a fellow human being in need of God's touch. We are the feet and fingers of the Creator. Thank you for reminding of this. It seems I need a daily reminder.
God bless,
Chris
I love your what are you grumpy about cartoon. Thanks for posting it. It is just what I needed today. I love coldplay too. Hope you have a better day!!!
You sound so much better than grumpy! Funny how being useful gets us out of our own way.....
Someone reminded me recently of ONE of the ways to determine God's will for me.
If I feel "pulled" to say, or do something, it maybe is NOT His will. If I'm being "Pushed" or "Nudged" it could more than likely BE His will. Even so, discernment is a gift from God. You may be a recipient.
Nothing is more uplifting than to be "pushed and nudged" by God and to respond.
God bless.
Its such a good feeling you get from helping others, even though we should do it anyway.
I am looking forward in a nervous sort of way to getting to tonights meeting despite the attrocious weather
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