Today I have a whole bunch of random percolating the cranium. Deep thoughts with Jack Handy and all that. No epiphanies or apostrophes, but I feel this nudge to offer it up for the good of the order. It will be brief.
Yesterday, between the socking rain and curious January tornado watch, I read in bed. A lot. So much so that my back hurts. I also fell asleep on a few piles of books. I would not recommend that.
Each day I dig into the greatest stuff I've ever read…no, not Facebook or Fast Company. It's my bible and right now I'm lugging around my old battered Message translation. I could read this thing every moment for the rest of my life and grasp only a sniff of it; it is that rich.
Saturday, January 20, 2012, had me parked in Luke 5 where Jesus tells a LEPER who he has not only TOUCHED, but healed, "Your cleansed and obedient life – not your words, will bear witness to what I have done." No yammering or stammering on my part. Just living life. Hot dog!
I also read the Zookeeper's Wife and Life in a Jar this week. Though I had not planned it this way, both books dealt with wartime Warsaw and the risks people took to emancipate strangers from certain extinction. Not everyone made it and no parades were launched on behalf of the selfless few who tried to rescue so many.
And even more "curiouser" is the next book in line is the Hare with the Amber Eyes which continues the theme of wartime Europe and the Jewish people and their "hidden inheritance". I wonder what the point is to suddenly read all of these books at once? Nuts.
Except…that maybe I am to remember that one everyday ordinary person can make a life or death difference-especially in one other person. Hitler is done, but we still have Swaziland, sex trafficking, and a slew of tyrants and selfish strongmen on deck. They can be defeated by single selfless intentional acts of courage. I hope that I'm up for the job. God knows I cried a river yesterday while I read.
Just because an animal is small, blind, one-eyed, and one-toothed, don't play a trick on it. It will cost you.
The north Georgia mountains are gorgeous – even in rain and fog – or maybe more so in rain and fog.
Lead with your mouth and y
ou are certain to meet with peril. "Even a fool when he is silent is considered wise." Oy. (Should I mention that I've knocked out my front teeth at least 5 times in my lifetime; 3 times in the last decade…)
Sometimes when we suffer, what we read in the bible feels like a taunt. Why is that when the whole library of 60-something books is a mobile library of love letters? Going to keep pressing in.
Peanut butter and chocolate chips on a spoon makes for a fine rainy day dinner.
"Don't eat the dragon all at once. Take small bites." (Use ketchup).
I miss my kids, friends, book club, familiar running trails, and the way the winter sun filled up my bungalow, but finally diving into a pool for a mile of really sad-looking swimming brought life and lift.
Hope I can hit the Elachee Nature Center today for a few hours of tromping in the woods.
I like fireflies and fireworks and campfires where friends and food-on-a-stick is involved.
Look! A chicken!
Random Blog Bonus for Sunday: Carbon Leaf's Love Loss Hope Repeat (just close your eyes – the photo roll is…distracting)
Love this and you! maybe I can join you on some of your outdoor adventures?! 🙂 I sadly need to be pushed. PS. I thought I was the only one who did the peanut butter/choc chip thing 🙂 !