Are you still there?
I haven't much time but I wanted to say something. I miss you all. I miss me too. This current life is hard. In two days we will have made it through one whole month.
Here are the quick details for those of you who haven't heard.
Talia Grace was born November 17, 2005 at 7:43 AM, 9 lbs. 5 oz., 21 inches. More about that later.
Three quotes that are rumbling round in these dark days.
God's great love and purposes for us are worked out in the messes, storms and sins, blue skies, daily work, and dreams of our common lives, working with us as we are and not as we should be.
Eugene Peterson Intro to Joshua, The Message
God meets us in the ordinary and extraordinary occurrences that make up the stuff of our daily lives.
Eugene Peterson Intro to the History Books, The Message
I must learn to have both 'everyday' and Your Day in the same exercise. In devoting myself to the works of this world, I must learn to give myself to You, to possess You, the one and only thing, in everything. ...In You, all that has been scattered is reunited; in Your Love all the diffusion of the day's chores comes home again to the evening of Your unity...
Karl Rahner (bold added by me)
I have been trying to find God in the midst of all of this - which has seemed difficult, or impossible. It was good to find the Rahner quote and to change my action to giving and possessing.
More later.
I welcome your prayers.
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Still here. :)
Praying for you.
Good to hear from you.
Peace
A. Hanson
I am praying for you.
Wonderful quotes! Thanks for sharing.
A quote rumbling lately in me to share... I think from Al Shuck's recent message, "doing little things with GREAT love."
I will pray that you can rest in the little things.
Thanks for the quotes. I have The Message Bible and keep hearing great quotes that I haven't found in there yet. Nice to hear from you in babyland. I'm quite certain that life with a newborn is exciting and exhausting (no personal experience to go on here). Maybe this is a season where it's okey to let God find you.
Here's praying you'll be found--again and again.
I have to say, I keep checking and checking...not because I expect you to post, but because I am thinking about you, and wondering how you are. The fact that you posted at all says that some of that fog has lifted from those blurry (in terms of tired as well as too fast) first few new-baby weeks! It can only get better?!
And that quote from Al's sermon? He was quoting Mother Teresa...no surprise though, is it? "In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love."
Which you are doing each and every moment these days! Lucky Talia.
. . . so that you know I pray . . .
Congratulations to you and welcome to Talia!
"God meets us in the ordinary and extraordinary occurrences that make up the stuff of our daily lives."
Just today someone shared with me how she found her (and our) church. Some time ago she really connected with a particular song on a worship CD. When she moved to MN, she attended many churches. But the first time she attended Open Door, they played this song, "her" song, during worship and she knew she had found her church.
Such an ordinary, but extraordinary, occurrence.
congrats and prayers go out to you..
good quotes... i love The Message!
so glad to hear from you... i, like tonya, have been hoping to hear how you've been.
may your days find you basking in the warmth of God's love and finding new reasons to love those around you.
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