Good Things Run Wild

"They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?" (Lucy Maud Montgomery) For all the ways Christians in "Christian Culture" today can grow, I don't know any topic that wouldn't improved by admitting we don't know everything more often. We don't ALWAYS have a defending, prepared answer ready. I'll never forget the life-changing value this admittance had on my life. ---- Don Shorey's Rule Number 8 in "12 Small Rules To Get Over Ourselves and Take A Deep Breath": https://www.instagram.com/p/CKXETNXBc7Q/

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?" J.M. Barrie Expounding on the concept, heart of, richness-available, and "best of" self-care... and God's heart for us. ---- Maker's Hollow Conversations On Rest, as mentioned in this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s2e02-on-rest-makers-hollow-conversations-episode-1/id1507890671?i=1000512052786

Not a persuasion piece on why anyone else "should want," but a personal testimony on why I *wanted* to be a mother before I was one. "And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home." (Dorothy L. Sayers)

In-between "me" and "him and then the "us" was a time where our lives merged. The first memories of us as us. This is a sacred, living, continued stage that should take you "there" as often as possible. "To me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis, or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen." (Marina Abramovic)

"We must bless without wanting to manipulate. Without insisting that everything be straightened out right now. Without insisting that our truth be known. This means simply turning whoever it is we need to bless over to God, knowing that God's powerful love will do what our own feeble love or lack of it won't." (Madeleine L'Engle) A few thoughts from someone who has been carried through hardship over and over, and wants you to know how impactful the little efforts to ease and show up are. Thank YOU.