When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
How can I help this son of mine see when I can't see? The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?
I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent o...
When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it's the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful; and, if we are not wil...
Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all? ...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears, And make me tr...
Peace is life. Love is life. No river holds a grudge against a rock in its path. No leaf refuses to blow in the breeze. No plant denies water or sunshine. We, as human beings, have the gift of self-awareness, but this gift quickly turns to self-destr...
The horror was this: the others.
The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.
The only true gift is a portion of thyself.
I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.
I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.
Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.
Find out what your gift is and nurture it.
If Children are God's Gift then adopted are God's child.
Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
The past is a gift that should not be unwrapped in the present.
Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.
Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
