Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
-Anne Lamott
What She Said, December 4: Anne Lamott
What She Said, December 3: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth’s crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What She Said, December 2: Byron Katie
I am a lover of what is, not because I’m a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. -Byron Katie
What She Said, December 1: Krista Tippett
I can disagree with your opinion, it turns out, but I can’t disagree with your experience. And once I have a sense of your experience, you and I are in relationship…
– Krista Tippett
Welcome to the Realm of the Storyteller
You are a storyteller and you’re invited to discover the secrets of story.
What She Said, November 29: Dawn Gehde
It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.
-Emma Thompson
What She Said, November 28: Anne Lamott
Hope is not about proving anything. It’s about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
– Anne Lamott
What She Said, November 27: Elizabeth Gilbert
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
― Elizabeth Gilbert
What She Said, November 26: Wendy White Goddard (2018)
So lucky to have our grown children with us today, finishing up the Thanksgiving prep, graciously sharing hosting duties, and almost making it through the day before succumbing to well-earned naps. Now we are packing up leftovers for their coolers and preparing to send them on their way. They have other responsibilities: pets to care for, jobs to do tomorrow, friends to check in on. But they come home to the lake when they can, and we are grateful for it.
-Wendy White Goddard, 2018
What She Said, November 25: Mary Oliver
Praying
It doesn’t have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
― Mary Oliver
The Gloria Sirens 