tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post101433119583984869..comments2024-01-31T07:54:13.816-08:00Comments on Diamonds in the Sky with Lucy: true confessionsKayce aka lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-72732741355637876082009-04-23T17:36:00.000-07:002009-04-23T17:36:00.000-07:00thank you, friends, for the smiles you have brough...thank you, friends, for the smiles you have brought me and the comfort of knowing i am not alone in this oh so long journey towards compassion.<br /><br />gabrielle--i thought of you yesterday when i was in the airport riding the escalator. fortunately all of the luggage kept the elbows in check :-)Kayce aka lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-62710932861073136762009-04-21T16:59:00.000-07:002009-04-21T16:59:00.000-07:00Oh Lucy, may I vent a little too after a long, har...Oh Lucy, may I vent a little too after a long, hard workday? I mean, is it a sin or a crime to actually just stand on the escalator and allow it to carry us upwards (which is what I believe the good Lord intended it to do), or must we all be pummelled by a thousand elbows running past us before we reach the top... I think I'll just go to bed now. :)Gabriellehttp://gabrielle.stblogs.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-5009899024961745572009-04-21T04:46:00.000-07:002009-04-21T04:46:00.000-07:00sorrow - you made me roar with laughter - i have a...sorrow - you made me roar with laughter - i have always wanted to do that, but never had the guts<br /><br />lucy - travelling alone on planes brings out my 'high lucy' too :)Kelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425317942978557478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-83212536878162741112009-04-19T08:30:00.000-07:002009-04-19T08:30:00.000-07:00Yup, I realised just last week that I've been doin...Yup, I realised just last week that I've been doing it for years in a certain situation. I love what you say here.Tesshttp://www.anchormast.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-80830617519552341972009-04-18T23:53:00.000-07:002009-04-18T23:53:00.000-07:00haha, I've just been to ER's blog and read about m...haha, I've just been to ER's blog and read about making instant judgments of people. <br /><br />Still, there are sometimes when you just pick up on vibes, and the gut instinct kicks in.<br /><br />hope all is well, Lucy. I'm back to blogging here and there...and hope to make it over your way more! :)His Girl Fridayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10053180004186823673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-73924676823448469022009-04-18T09:56:00.000-07:002009-04-18T09:56:00.000-07:00Oh wow Lucy! I can relate but it doesn't make me ...Oh wow Lucy! I can relate but it doesn't make me proud:( anymore than it does you. No wonder we in life are all so wound up in personal appearance of ourselves - we know how WE JUDGE OTHERS and so we choose the model most familiar to our own and try to mimic that so we won't be criticized.....this is my self-analyis I'm sure you see working here - not an analysis of Lucy or Kayce:) And airplanes, they seem to bring out the worst in me. I can always find somebody doing something I don't like or approve of. I guess that's why airports and airplanes are such a fabulous place to work on one's soul, one's tolerance, one's compassion, one's CONTROL!!!! Oh yeah, I usually have to spend some time in prayer while flying and it's not just because I think the plane might fall out of the sky any minute.<br /><br />Thanks for this great provocation. It seems to have touched a nerve with a lot of us:)Dianna Woolleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901349180265745138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-45485052710321253372009-04-18T03:14:00.000-07:002009-04-18T03:14:00.000-07:00Yes, I loved that Richard Rohr quote too, Lucy. I...Yes, I loved that Richard Rohr quote too, Lucy. It made me feel better in some small way when I did what now feels like a little high kicking the other day with someone online who, through their own woundedness, has grown up learning to be VERY inconsiderate to other people. I called them onto the carpet, they managed to turn it all around so that I was the bad guy ... and I ended up thinking that I should have just kept my mouth shut anyway. Hmmmm.<br /><br />I love the way God shows us truth. So gently, so as not to prod our defenses. I have a very long way to go :)Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-3812163954336440102009-04-17T08:53:00.000-07:002009-04-17T08:53:00.000-07:00Hi Lucy
I often fall into similar traps - instant...Hi Lucy<br /><br />I often fall into similar traps - instant judgements - sometimes without any obvious trigger. I've just posted about something similar that happened over here recently.<br /><br />The trouble is that we/I tend not to learn!Les (Endlessly Restless)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00973835208897357154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-12706167196460120982009-04-17T06:07:00.000-07:002009-04-17T06:07:00.000-07:00blisschick - thank you for honoring me with this a...blisschick - thank you for honoring me with this award. lemons to lemondade. i love it!!<br /><br />tinkerbell - merton always seems to have a perspective, huh? thanks for sharing this one with me.<br /><br />sorrow - oh, i got a big chuckle out of your comment. we all have our moments, don't we?<br /><br />barbara - i would prefer to name you as "honest" vs. tactless. there are definitely soft edges around that "blunt" exterior. you are a delight to me.<br /><br />thought you all might enjoy this quote from my morning reading by richard rohr:<br /><br />"We know it’s grace when we no longer need to hate or punish others, even in our mind. We know someone else is working through us, in us, in spite of us, and for us."Kayce aka lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-78271449590710813092009-04-16T19:28:00.000-07:002009-04-16T19:28:00.000-07:00Being from NYC, I have tactless and blunt down to ...Being from NYC, I have tactless and blunt down to an artform. When I express my opinion (as my opinion only and subject to correction to be sure) as directly as I can, I inevitably offend someone with another perspective. I am currently persona non grata among certain folk. On the one hand, I feel badly that I have offended some, but strangely relieved and released from a burden -- I suppose that of being someone I was not.Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17078914306329037697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-10309581268831096482009-04-16T17:50:00.000-07:002009-04-16T17:50:00.000-07:00My teenage son loves to tattle on me.
He and i had...My teenage son loves to tattle on me.<br />He and i had gone into one of those nasty large "super stores" I call them nasty because i always feel like they are not clean, and they seem to be running every mom and pop store out of business. ( hence i usually avoid)<br />So he had gotten his " thing, and I had gotten my " thing" and we were in the " express isle." ( the one that says 15 items or less) When a severely over weight woman in one of those driving buggies came up, her little basket over loaded with tv dinners little frozen pizzas, ice cream, junk food of all kinds.<br />She ran over my foot in her attempt to squeeze in front of us.<br />" jumping back I grabbed my foot and said very loudly " Excuse me! you just ran over my foot! and we were here first!"<br />she looked at me and scowled " I'm handicapped!" she screeched at me.<br />( this is the part my son loves to tell the most) I looked at her and I said " Your not handicapped, your fat, rude and inconsiderate" and I grabbed my son dropped everything we were go9ing to but and left.<br />Yep, I can lose my compassion, and it always comes back to haunt me.<br />( in the form of my kids.)<br />:)Sorrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03058557348955007784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-79877316496586414482009-04-16T08:56:00.000-07:002009-04-16T08:56:00.000-07:00I am reading Thomas Merton's New Seeds of Contempl...I am reading Thomas Merton's <I>New Seeds of Contemplation</I>. I have just read these words, which seem fitting, for this post:<br /><br /><I>When we see crime in others, we try to correct it by destroying them or at least putting them out of sight. It is easy to identify the sin with the sinner when [s/]he is someone other than our own self.</I>Often I encounter a similar situation in public (i.e the dude that was sitting at the back of the bus, drinking a budweiser and smoking a cigarette, during last evening's commute home). I bite my tongue ... and then bite it some more!roxanne s. sukhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16424834424208118694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-64069576932987640192009-04-16T08:29:00.000-07:002009-04-16T08:29:00.000-07:00Oh this kind of honesty is why I give you this:
h...Oh this kind of honesty is why I give you this:<br /><br />http://www.blisschick.net/2009/04/sharedbliss-lemonade-award.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com