Wisdom of Rumi (1)

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

Do not look back, 
No one knows how the world ever began. 
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. 
If you dwell on the past or future, 
You will miss the moment.

Today I Choose

Today, I choose to live deliberately. I choose sufficiency, not scarcity.
Today is a good day to learn and to grow. 
To risk, to fall down and to get up and try again.
To right a wrong. To forgive (beginning with my self).
To embrace. To offer a hand, or a kind word. Or both.
To hope. To delight. To wonder.
To wander. To sit still. To laugh out loud.
To question. To dance. 
To drink that bottle of wine (from the cellar saved for a special occasion).
To follow passion. To be open to Teannalach.
To savor. To love. To lose. To die.
~Terry Hershey 

a question from Meister Eckhart

How long will grown men and women in this world keep drawing in their coloring books an image of God that makes them sad? 
~Meister Eckhart

An Entry from a garden blog 7 years ago

Friday, July 2, 2010
A Passion and a Way to Share It
I have been blessed with a passion for gardening and with a need to share this passion with others. I have been looking at some different ways to involve my church in a garden ministry. My original excitement was the possibility that we might start a garden right on the church campus. After thinking about it, this just didn't seem doable. The next idea was that maybe we could start a garden on the property of one of the members. Before that was ever finalized or really even acted on, the associate pastor of our church, volunteered his backyard. I was excited about that until I realized that we would have to destroy some rather nice landscaping and as Methodist pastors are apt to be moved any year, there was also the possibility that the next family to occupy that house would not be happy about it being there.

After we went through all of this thinking, the eureka moment happened. I had been involved in a neighborhood garden for several years that was improving every year but never seeming to live up to its potential. The garden was started after the City of Tifton was given a piece of derelict land across the street from Brother Charley’s Rescue Mission, a place for homeless men to stay. The idea has been to get the men from the mission involved in the garden. Some of them have but they are the ones who seem to get jobs or move on. The turnover among residents is enough that no one is there to take charge of the garden so a lot of the vegetables are not harvested. I am hoping that we can get a group of people to commit to working this garden as a community outreach mission project. I would love to see people of all ages from my church and other churches working together with folks from the mission and the community around the garden. If we can get a group of committed people involved, enough produce can be grown to provide fresh vegetables for the mission, the soup kitchen, the food bank and people from the surrounding community.

And the Lord said to them, “When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was thirsty you gave me a drink to quench my thirst." And they asked him, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and give you food? When did we find you thirsty and give you something to drink?” And the Lord replied, “The food and drink that you share with the least of my brothers and sister, you also share with me.
from Matthew 25:31-46 - my paraphrase
Posted by Richard Burton at 6:49 PM 

The moment we choose to love

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
~Bell Hooks

Amazement

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Emerging life
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