At A Hen's Pace: Listening

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Listening

Lots of things percolating inside, so far this Lent (and before). Nothing really ready to share, but God has been stirring up my questions and thoughts about...

--grace
--rest
--gratitude and its relation to grace and joy
--affirmation
--rest
--priorities
--appreciation
--what it means to love God, love others, and love myself--and be loved
--smallness

Everything I'm reading and listening to just seems to keep bringing up these same ideas, like a merry-go-round ride where you keep sweeping past the same guy in the red hat, and there's the same lady holding onto a stroller....

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"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
~Theodore Roosevelt

"Reading makes a man full; conference makes a man ready; writing makes a man exact."
~Sir Francis Bacon

O God, you have taught me since I was young, and to this day I tell of your wonderful works.

~Psalm 71:17

"No matter how many kids you might have, I am firmly convinced that a person can find the time to do the things they want to do."
~Dortha, in The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio

“Nothing has really happened unless its been described [in words]. Keep a diary. Don’t let a day pass without recording it, whether something interesting happens or not. Something interesting happens every day.”
~Virginia Woolf

"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."

~Samuel Johnson

"How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”

~E.M. Forster