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solutions

missm — 2009-12-23T13:49:00Z

We should find God in what we do know,
not in what we don't;
not in outstanding problems,
but in those we have already solved.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Letters and Papers from Prison

a bird in paradise

missm — 2009-11-28T16:22:00Z

let heaven start

from the ground up

stand with your feet

in paradise

~

missm — 2007-08-23T13:01:00Z

Teach me, like you
to drink creation whole/
And, casting out my self,
become a soul.

Richard Wilbur
The Aspen and the Stream
Advice to a Prophet
1961

l.o.v.e.

missm — 2007-08-09T19:48:00Z

Love's gift cannot be given,

It waits to be accepted.

Rabindranath Tagore

Fireflies

1928

O

missm — 2007-07-07T08:36:00Z

Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is the inclusion of all color. White is every color that exists combined. So, too, is love not the absence of emotion (hatred, anger, lust, jealousy, covertness), but the summation of all feeling? It is the sum total. The aggregate amount. The everything.

Neale Donald Walsch Conversations with God
quoted in Debbie Ford, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers.

< ^ ! ^ >

missm — 2007-06-04T09:01:00Z

We live under the impression that in order for something to be divine it has to be perfect. We are mistaken. In fact, the exact opposite is true. To be divine is to be whole and to be whole is to be everything: the positive and the negative, the good and the bad, the holy man and the devil.

When we take time to discover our shadow and its gifts we will understand what Jung meant by, "The gold is in the dark." Each of us needs to find that gold in order to reunite with our sacred self.

Debbie Ford, the Dark Side of the Light Chasers, 1998

gift

missm — 2007-04-09T11:46:00Z

~ To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;

To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;

To defy power which seems omnipotent;

to love,and bear; to hope till Hope creates

from its own wreck the thing it contemplates.~

Percy Bysshe Shelley

~ Forigveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.~

Mark Twain

what kind of firework

missm — 2006-12-02T16:02:56Z

would you get

if you would wrap your fear

in a pretty little box

and light it?

my world

missm — 2006-11-20T04:29:00Z

revolves around me.

your world.

revolves around you.

with that respect.

we revolve.

around.

each other.

Pet

missm — 2006-05-19T12:48:53Z

PetCombat ~Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional~

Max Lucado

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May 19

Captured Thoughts

“We capture every thought and make it
give up and obey Christ.”

2 Corinthians 10:5

Capturing thoughts is serious business. It was for Jesus. Remember the thoughts that came his way courtesy of the mouth of Peter? Jesus had just prophesied his death, burial, and resurrection, but Peter couldn’t bear the thought of it. “Peter took Jesus aside and told him not to talk like that…Jesus said to Peter, “Go away from me, Satan! You are not helping me! You don’t care about the things of God, but only about the things people think are important” (Matt. 16:22-23).

See the decisiveness of Jesus? A trashy thought comes his way. He is tempted to entertain it. A cross-less life would be nice. But what does he do? He stands at the gangplank of the dock and says, “Get away from me.” As if to say, “You are not allowed to enter my mind.”

What if you did that. What if you took every thought captive?

from A Love Worth Giving