Hope
Author: Joan Harman
July 29, 2021
This week I took my
stack of VERY GOOD NOTES from a variety of sources and noticed that there is no
cohesion to form one elaborated thought. So, it's a week of Ramblings, because "You gotta see these! They are SO good." Here's the format. Each great idea is in regular print. Any comment or opinion I have regarding that
idea will be in italics. I hope.
#1- Surrender to the
intention wanting to use your life. This reminds me of those preference or skills assessment tests we
sometimes take after the perfect job "we thought" doesn't turn out to
be so perfect. I must say, I'm
considering developing one of those for what it takes to be 89 and still
chugging, but where is the intention wanting to use a well worn anatomy who
loves food more than most anything else?
#2- Pick your list out
of these two: truth, youth, love OR
truth, beauty,
justice, love. My choice varies from day
to day. This morning I only took beauty,
not the whole list. On the morning walk,
the neighbor gave me some jasmine blooms to put under the sweat band on my hat,
and we saw a fledgling hummingbird whose mama had just pushed him out of the
nest chirping, "You can do this."
#3- All visible sides
of an object presuppose at least one side invisible. Does that work also for
arguments/opinions?
The writer went on to
say that only God has the omniscient point of view.
#4- In a recent Upper
Room devotional we were to read Matthew 11:25-30 , and for the first time it
occurred to me that Jesus had just chastised a list of cities that had highly
irritated him after all the work put into them, but in vs. 25 broke into a
spontaneous prayer of thanks.
That sure brought back
memories of some times in parenting children and caregiving when events/people
were irritating. I appreciated Jesus'
humanity in a new way as I remembered those days while reading this.
#5- Leo Buscaglia
authors the study book our group is now discussing. He says, "The gospel of the human
effort is, 'Dreams of today are the
reality of tomorrow.' "
Space Travel was only
beginning to be dreamed in the fiction of my early life, and then it went from detailed fiction, to NASA
to Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos running space travel agencies. And as of this week, they've both taken
passengers into sub-orbital weightlessness. Now how about that?
#6- The reading was
Isaiah 41:1-14.
Highlights for me are
I CALLED vs. 9 I AM vs. 10 I WILL HELP YOU. vs. 14.
Blessings,
Joan K. Harman <><<><
joanharmank@gmail.com
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