tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post517088181095242178..comments2024-01-31T07:54:13.816-08:00Comments on Diamonds in the Sky with Lucy: formationKayce aka lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-2634812519658574412008-10-10T13:40:00.000-07:002008-10-10T13:40:00.000-07:00yes, warrior woman is the meaning of my given name...yes, warrior woman is the meaning of my given name (of which I blog under an abbreviation of)<BR/><BR/>how nice that you could choose a blog nome de plume which means light<BR/><BR/>it suits you<BR/>you are a seeker of light<BR/>and seem in your blogposts to have the ability to take yourself lightly when required :)Kelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425317942978557478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-45692963968106325682008-10-08T11:22:00.000-07:002008-10-08T11:22:00.000-07:00I never cease to be amazed when I find YOUR mind r...I never cease to be amazed when I find YOUR mind running along similar paths of my own (or vice versa). I’ve shared that same e e cummings quote often (on each of my blogs) because I keep returning to the challenge of allowing myself to BE myself … just as I am. Interesting, this morning I started creating a Wellness Wednesday post that’s (not yet finished and waiting for me in my ‘drafts’ folder) based on this longer version of the same Rilke quote: <BR/><BR/><I>“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." <BR/>Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet</I><BR/><BR/>I’ve been ‘struggling’ with myself and the things of this ‘real’ world … dealing with chaos & confusion generated by things over which I have little, if any, control in my own ways … using various ‘texts’ to assist … sharing bits & pieces occasionally at Sacred Ruminations … but holding back (as I all too often do) … trying to ‘live the questions now’ as authentically as possible. Hopefully I’ll finish and publish that post before today ends … but at the moment I was ‘distracting’ myself with some ‘blog visits’ … (chuckling here as I type this because I should have known that wasn’t likely). The Universe does have a way of directing our attention to what matters, doesn’t it?<BR/>Hugs and blessings,storytellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14101550406171982090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-35871673528836767382008-10-05T19:40:00.000-07:002008-10-05T19:40:00.000-07:00kel--i love that your name means warrior woman!!! ...kel--i love that your name means warrior woman!!! is it your given name? lucy means light :-)<BR/><BR/>barbara--here are my favorite words from you today: "I don't fight it because there is nothing to fear". i think that says it all!<BR/><BR/>karen--here's to a few moments of clarity on which to build!!! keep journeying, friend!<BR/><BR/>tess--oh, i love that lucy the cat..she's my kind of kitty :-) xoxoxKayce aka lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-46586292572489968352008-10-05T04:26:00.000-07:002008-10-05T04:26:00.000-07:00Thank you for this link between the words inform a...Thank you for this link between the words inform and formation - I don't think I would have got there myself. <BR/>Much to ponder here, and I thank God that increasingly I am able to let go of what others think of me. (Not entirely, but getting there...) Which means formation can be more directly in-formed.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I would also like to snuggle in bed to read but unless I close the door I am not allowed to, because your namesake Lucy-the-cat sees books in bed as arch-rivals for her affection and inserts her furry body between them and my eyes, repeatedly.Ted Marshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03614757494008500523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-2701948362178220072008-10-04T15:01:00.000-07:002008-10-04T15:01:00.000-07:00As the title to blog says--I'm on a journey to aut...As the title to blog says--I'm on a journey to authenticity! For so long, I have been hiding who I am--I'm really good at figuring what other people want of me and then molding myself to fit that. So basically, the questions you ask at the end are questions I ask myself practically every day. I haven't figured it all out, but I get moments of clarity--and then I build on the moments--and hopefully, in the end, I'll be who I'm supposed to be...Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09182248478422009913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-35591562695501132092008-10-04T14:55:00.000-07:002008-10-04T14:55:00.000-07:00I certainly feel my way. In the Benedictine tradit...I certainly feel my way. In the Benedictine tradition, I listen. I listen not just to folks whose advice has proven good, but also to my own body and to what God may present to me at the moment -- be that a book, a blog post, the weather, the touch of a friend.<BR/>Since my life has been going through a somewhat darker phase of late, I live the questions (in reference to Rilke) of the darkness; I don't fight it because there is nothing to fear and I have reached out for the help God extends to us. I think my scientific curiosity comes in to play and I become the observer of my life. I make small changes and observe what happens and adjust accordingly.Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17078914306329037697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-60662379920426938822008-10-04T14:54:00.000-07:002008-10-04T14:54:00.000-07:00your bookshelf sounds like it has the diversity ye...your bookshelf sounds like it has the diversity yet sameness as mine :)<BR/><BR/>and I seek the same thing you do - the experience of God - which is different to the knowledge of . . .<BR/><BR/>and yes, I choose to fight the battle to be myself, for after all, my name means warrior woman!Kelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18425317942978557478noreply@blogger.com