tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post8931286401840533196..comments2024-01-31T07:54:13.816-08:00Comments on Diamonds in the Sky with Lucy: Season's RhythmKayce aka lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-15099254250969823072007-09-30T16:51:00.000-07:002007-09-30T16:51:00.000-07:00gabrielle-thanks for the words/recommendation of F...gabrielle-thanks for the words/recommendation of Fr. Au...i may need to add that to my long list of compelling reading :-)Kayce aka lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-9696319663588489282007-09-28T16:59:00.000-07:002007-09-28T16:59:00.000-07:00Lucy, I don't know Eugene Peterson, but his though...Lucy, I don't know Eugene Peterson, but his thought sounds very similar to a Jesuit priest and writer, Fr. Wilkie Au (By Way of the Heart. Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality). He writes that our relationship to the world must be both aesthetical and ascetical, the former so that we are free to say "yes" and take delight in God's glorious creation, and the latter so that we become free to say "no" to anything that is an obstacle to a deeper "yes" we desire to say to God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-25446675686049000692007-09-28T07:18:00.000-07:002007-09-28T07:18:00.000-07:00you know me, tess. terrifying and compelling go h...you know me, tess. terrifying and compelling go hand in hand more and more often. <BR/>it was really cool this morning as i ran my "timed mile" (ugh), i could feel god's presence and the strength coursing through my body. we'll see how the rest of the day goes.<BR/>(i may also be on a high because i have two days off from camp :-)Kayce aka lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-54588104448485154842007-09-28T01:21:00.000-07:002007-09-28T01:21:00.000-07:00The boot camp sounds both terrifying and compellin...The boot camp sounds both terrifying and compelling. Look forward to hearing how the physical begins to mesh (or not) with the spiritual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-81028850089857624442007-09-27T19:26:00.000-07:002007-09-27T19:26:00.000-07:00thank you, cheryl, sue & pamela for your lovely an...thank you, cheryl, sue & pamela for your lovely and thoughtful remarks. i love seeing what resonates with each of you.Kayce aka lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01479940262271959482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-23407460099445831392007-09-27T17:22:00.000-07:002007-09-27T17:22:00.000-07:00Lucy!! Love your post!!! So appropriate in the w...Lucy!! Love your post!!! So appropriate in the week of the arrival of the autumnal equinox....the time when the northern and southern (opposite directions!) receive the same amount of sunlight, and day and night are of equal length!!! I love the lesson of the equinox which invites us to consider what we have harvested in our lives and how we have been transformed by our experiences. I love that this is a constant reminder that transformation and change are necessary for new growth and expansion. I love the picture of the sunflowers you posted....the looking inward to our center and then outward to our world, the swing of the pendulum. <BR/> "to Everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the sun; a time to be born, a time to die: a time to plant and a time to reap.... Ecclesiastes 3:1. Wonderful thoughts. Love, PamelaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-80901185841955197662007-09-27T15:29:00.000-07:002007-09-27T15:29:00.000-07:00I don't understand the whole pain = draws you clos...I don't understand the whole pain = draws you closer to God thang either. I am almost over a two-month bout of tracheitis (infected windpipe), which has seen me almost the entire time with a strained muscle somewhere in my body that has come about through strenuous coughing.<BR/><BR/>The past two months haven't brought me closer to God. In fact, I have just been spending the past 10 minutes complaining and railing against the pain to him. I can't hear him the way I usually do. It must be a trust thing. But no, give me a sunflower any day. That I can understand. That makes me want to climb on Abba's lap.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01122659239039900398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15693384.post-31773134520895408882007-09-27T14:08:00.000-07:002007-09-27T14:08:00.000-07:00Lucy,I love the picture of the sunflowers, some bo...Lucy,<BR/><BR/>I love the picture of the sunflowers, some bowed and some with faces raised to the sun. That feels so like all of our lives and a metaphor I will keep with me as I navigate my days. Thanks!<BR/><BR/>CherylAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com