testimony

The bit of God's love that I know is the bit of God's love that has been made real for me in the love of those who have loved me. – INCARNATION – I have longed for much of my total life and all of my adult life to have the same kind of impact on the world that my father had. I longed to give myself to the world and I longed to be recognized for the great things that I would accomplish. – I wanted all of the benefits but I did not want any of the requisite cost and sacrifice. I wanted a meaningful life but I wanted it on my terms. Life is not like that. We seldom get to live life on our own terms. But we do get to live life meaningfully if we choose to. → ←
HOLY SPIRIT – God's love overflowing – discernment – connection – the human connection

The Day (dated 09/27/2016)
Nothing big happened today. It was just one more day of ordinary. I was sitting in my chair thinking about the day just past and many more just like it and I realized that my memories were much greater than my dreams.

“I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible, loving, human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.”
-William James

The Holy Spirit comes as a quiet and gentle breeze, so soft that we might very well miss it.
Is that the way that it is? That is the way that it is.
     -from Brother Ben's notebook