SOMETHING IN ME CONSTANLY
BLEEDS TOWARDS GOD.
THAT'S WHY I KEEP WRITING,
SLIPPING MESSAGES UNDER THE DOOR.
-dorothy walters
from "Marrow of Flame"
BLEEDS TOWARDS GOD.
THAT'S WHY I KEEP WRITING,
SLIPPING MESSAGES UNDER THE DOOR.
-dorothy walters
from "Marrow of Flame"
Here are some messages I would like to slip under your door:
- It's ok to wake up laughing...and it's ok to wake up weeping.
- Gratitude is medicinal but you will need to say "thank you" more than once a year to get full benefit of the medicine.
- Forgive and the whole landscape will change. -Kathleen Griffin
- There is a depth in you that you have not yet discovered.
- Today, put on joy. The world needs it so much. No matter how many sorrows try to crowd it out, joy is a permanent resident in your soul. Happiness is a bit fleeting but joy is more stable because joy, as novelist Eugenia Price tells us is "God in the marrow of our bones."
- "There is nothing in your life too terrible or too sad that will not be your friend if you find the right name to call it, and calling it by its own name, it will come upright to your side." Laurens van der Post
- Keep vigil with your life. Guard well your heart.
- You are a blessing; let the light of your life shine on others this day.
- Practice waiting with patience and you may be surprised with new revelations.
- You are a jewel of creation.
I had not read that before - Joy is God in the marrow of our bones. I am going to meditate on that. Thank you for the whole list.
ReplyDeleteI, too, love the phrase Deacon Susan picks out.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find difficult is owning the sad emotions, and I often end up "putting on joy" as a cover-up and therefore being half-hearted in the depths and heights of either emotion.
I end up falling often into what St Benedict so deplores: grumbling.