reverent irreverence

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

I'm still here, are you?

I realize I have been a spotty blogger since becoming part of a more conventional workforce, but I can't tell if anyone is still visiting here (except for my mother). If no one is reading the blog I'll fold it up and tuck it away, but if my less frequent posts matter to anyone, please let me know. I DO have things to say, but if no one is reading them there's not much point in spending the time to put them out there.

Please just let me know.

Thanks, and have a stellar day!

5 comments:

Three Birds Inspired said...: I am still here reading every word!; 9:06 AM, September 14, 2011
karen said...: I'm still reading.....perhaps not every day...but a couple times a week I catch up.
Of course I am out of work for a bit as I had surgery last week....so more often visits for now!!!
And I vote for Mary Poppins, and do make Ken be the chimney sweep!!!!!; 12:51 PM, September 14, 2011
Kip said...: I'm here!; 4:07 PM, September 14, 2011
JulesinParadise said...: I read but don't always leave you love...here is a bunch

LOVE
LOVE
LOVE

Please keep blogging. I went into severe withdrawal when you stopped the Wed. missives a few years back.; 4:20 PM, September 14, 2011
Jan said...: I've been pretty spotty, too, but don't want you to quit. I usually come by to check on you, even if/when I don't comment. Stay!; 7:57 AM, September 15, 2011

gems

From the 2003 memorial service for slain reporter Daniel Pearl (directed to Daniel Pearl's father):

"We are here to assert the Islamic conviction of the moral equivalency of our Abrahamic faiths. If to be a Jew means to say with all one's heart, mind and soul, 'Sh'ma Israel, Adonai Elohenu, Adonai echad; Hear o Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One,' not only today am I a Jew, but I have always been one, Mr. Pearl."

"If to be a Christian is to love the Lord our God with all of my heart, mind and soul and to love for my fellow human beings what I love for myself, then not only am I a Christian, but I have always been one, Mr. Pearl. We are here especially to seek your forgiveness and that of your family for what has been done in the name of Islam."
Imam Feisal Rauf

There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing.
Michael Mahoney

“Give me a candle of the Spirit, O God, as I go down into the deeps of my being. Show me the hidden things, the creatures of my dreams, the storehouse of forgotten memories and hurts. Take me down to the spring of my life, and tell me my nature and my name. Give me freedom to grow, so that I may become that self, the seed of which you planted in me at my making. Out of the deeps I cry to you, O God.”
--Prayer at night by Jim Cotter

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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