‘Hope, we all agreed, is the best thing in the world.’
House in The Sky – Amanda Lindhout
Author: Sue Young
Quote Of The Week
‘Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are a perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of trials or tribulations can ever change that.’
Quote Of The Week
‘Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.’
Quote Of The Week
‘We all have an old knot in our heart we wish to untie.’
I’m Not Breaking Promises
I’m not breaking promises
To myself anymore
I’m not slamming my fingers
In the door anymore
I’m not sabotaging the things
That are good for me
I’m not holding on
To the ‘pain-body‘
I’m not saying God
Won’t give me wings
‘Cos now I know
That he forgives me things
There’s so much more
That He will do
I just really need
To forgive others too.
And it’s time to stop
The sackcloth and ashes
It’s time to stop
The thousand lashes
It’s time…
I stopped the war.
I’m not breaking promises
To myself anymore.
Quote Of The Week
‘Nothing makes the light, the wonder, the treasure, stand out so well as darkness.’
Tonight After Midnight
When darkness and shadow come creeping in
I think of you and my night begins
I close my eyes and silence comes
The strains – they fade
And tranquility hums
And then I see you
There is peace to find
You appear quite clearly, there, in my mind
You sit there by my sleepy hollow
You sit there by my bed
And in your hand you hold a rose
Of softest deepest red
And all the night long you smile
You’re there it seems for eternity
Until morning comes and calls to me
Quote Of The Week
‘Then there was the heavy drinker who picked up the wrong can and, instead of drinking beer he drank heavy duty varnish – a terrible death but a beautiful finish.’
Quote Of The Week
‘Forgive as much as you can, forget a little, and create a lot.’
Loneliness, suddenly.
Because I can’t hug people, I suddenly really want to hug people, and yet, I’ve never really been a people person. Maybe I will be after this.
And, because I can’t talk to people face to face…I suddenly want to talk to people. I never really thought about it too much before., the human touch, and how we all need it.
Today, while necessity shopping, a lovely lady of senior years, wearing bright blue plastic gloves greeted me with a cheery ‘Good Morning’, from across the road. That meant a lot. People will beat it somehow. They find a way. Suddenly, I was a dry sponge, that soaked up any water coming my way. Strange, how much it warmed my soul. I felt a connection, and again, just a minute later, a tattooed young man, all bristling muscles, in his front garden, hosing it clean, water flooding out his gate, touching the toes of my boots, said ‘Hello,’
Hello.’ I answered, and again, my mood lifted just a little, just enough to get through another day.
Social distancing maybe. Voice distancing? Na.
Again, that strange warmth…glow whatever. People find a way. They always find a way. Thank God.
Things In My Head 