pack like a pilgrim

"God of Pilgrims,

Give us always a table to stop at

where we can tell our story

and sing our song."

- Father J. Giuliani,

The Benedictine Grange,

West Redding, Connecticut

According to the website where I found this photo pilgrims carried purses (scrips) which usually contained a bowl, a knife and a fresh set of undies...Realizing that we are all on a pilgrimage, may we always remember to pack so lightly.

childlikeness

"Small children somehow know that they have nothing of themselves on which to base any claim to gift or favour, yet they still believe that love will reach out and enfold them.  Devoid of adult pretentiousness, and full of their belief in being unconditionally loved, they have not yet begun the endless, competitive quest for self-justification, for proving their worthiness, for being in 'the state of grace', for relentlessly producing something better than anybody else.  Here lies the freedom and joy of the  daughters and sons of God."
 - Daniel J. O'Leary, Travelling Light - Your Journey to Wholeness,  p. 125.

photo - Fredrick's first time on a swing.

"Love is not an emotion.

It is a policy."

-Hugh Bishop

try again?

"In everybody's life there is something that we want to do more than anything else.  The only question is whether what we want to do is what we can do and whether what we can do we are giving enough effort to doing.  Anything else is either tragic misunderstanding of the self or a comedic misuse of a natural gift."
- Joan Chittister, O.S.B.

quicksand

"Mere words have something of quicksand about them.

Only experience is the rope that is thrown to us."

-Georges Bataille

unless of course one is actually sinking into quicksand

and the words are "grab the rope"

unreasonable expectations

"Though we often tend to blame them,

it is not the external things like families, jobs or money

that create problems for us in our lives.

Rather, what actually makes us unhappy

is our tendency to desire that these things bring us happiness.

This expectation that family, job, money, a new car, whatever,

will make us happy is what binds us and causes our discontent.”

- D.W. Moore

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absurdity of certainty

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."

– Voltaire: philosopher, writer

It's been several weeks now since this day arrived without the predicted outcome & I'm wondering how those who believed with such certainty are coping in the aftermath? Have they walked away from their faith? Have they made amends with their loved ones? Or have they just chosen another date?  At the very least, I hope they had enough money left to have their truck painted.