Today, I am grateful for all of you!!
NAMASTE! Lori, I am so sorry to hear about someone breaking into your boyfriend's house but glad he wasn't there and most things are ok. We, too, have been having several days of rain which will hopefully set the trees ablaze in the firery colors of Autumn.
What a truly special gift to be able to help those whose lives have been devastated by addiction to come back to freedom. I am sure they are very lucky to have you support them along the way. The future retreat is still being warmed in the gentle light of the prayer candle.
Solomon, I am so glad you have been having the sunshine and not us
. I admire your skill in putting up your own blog. I am still trying to figure out how to import pictures and new fonts onto this site. Perhaps it is more difficult because I use a Mac. Thank you for your post about being grateful that you are feeling positive. It is gift when one is "feeling" positive rather than "acting as if" which I often times find difficult.
Richard, Thank you for your concern about our weather. We have had storms all day and supposedly they will continue through the weekend but no power outages. Like you, each of us, knowing our own personal weaknesses, are grateful for the chance to atone and do good. It seems that it is only when we recognize our own weaknesses and shortcomings that we have the capability to become what Nouwen calls "wounded healers."
Dear Nita,Thank you for all the very special emails. They have been real gift and things that I need to focus on right now. It is good to have you back posting again.
Judith, I can only say "ditto" to your post about being grateful to those on this website.
Juliana, dear,There is no "right or wrong" place to post. Sometimes another just pops up and we post before we realized where we posted.
I am grateful for the steps along the path of understanding others that I take, especially when I am confronted with differing views.
This is such a powerful call to personal growth especially when it is in regard to someone who not only has differing views but seems to be a real personality clash. Thank you for sharing the fruits of your retreat with all of us and inviting us all to grow. Blessings!
Edda,Thank you for posting the poem. Blessings on your morning of centering prayerful companionship.
wonderful open-minded, kind-hearted and forgiving friends I have met in these forums. If only the whole world could interact like that!
Perhaps, this forum is the beginning of that. As Frances of Assissi put it "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me." As each of us move in and out of the forum, perhaps we are that little pebble thrown into the ocean of the world generally and because we bring kind-hearted forgiveness with us, each of us begin to spread those little ripples of peace to all those we come in contact with outside this forum. Maybe eventually all those little ripples will become a small wave and then a larger and larger one until little corners of the world are living in peaceful kind-hearted forgiveness and acceptance.
Namaste--Truly I bow to the life spirit who resides in all of you.