tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post4872769546519170639..comments2023-11-03T05:09:33.978-04:00Comments on Fragments of Grace: Fourth QuestionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-14097882116477222892011-08-28T15:33:36.342-04:002011-08-28T15:33:36.342-04:00Am just back from holiday where your fourth questi...Am just back from holiday where your fourth question kept floating to the surface. I think the connection is something like this...<br /><br />I find happiness in glimpsing the action of God in my daily life, and colour reflects the different ways in which the light of God comes to me. The cities represent a diversity one of the greatest (NY)and a new city (Kwekwe)which I helped obtain city status but they say to me the same thing .... whether you are in the greatest city on earth or the newest God is still present. Interior spaces - well all life and faith is Holy is it not? Outdoors - I like to see God coming. And sometimes try and get out of the way as I do not always have the courage to let God run me down. But I also have learned that openess is the most productive stance...even in when nothing makes sense and God seems absent from His own Cosmos.<br /><br />All these surprise me as they indicate something that I hadn't really understood at coal face of day to day living. I have never really been interested in saints except to see the process by which they became saints...hmmm....I have always beleived that for me God intended me to learn to discern Him in the midst of ordinary life - living and working - married, raising children, accounting...Gayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05382575146394739428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-3406314682078141642011-08-15T02:55:39.194-04:002011-08-15T02:55:39.194-04:00Here are my answers to the third question. http://...Here are my answers to the third question. http://acrazyquiltlife.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-do-you-consider-to-be-big-question.html The fourth is going to require more thought.Cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11641264346663533706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-85630549432849246352011-08-11T23:40:17.357-04:002011-08-11T23:40:17.357-04:00I'm not afraid of change. Personally I have do...I'm not afraid of change. Personally I have done some very hard interior work in order that I can be a healthier person. As a result I often fail to understand that others are afraid of change, afraid of hard interior work for health. But I am also someone with a level of compassion for how people function ( or not) and the ability to work with all kinds of people. Arizona taught me that there are some situations that I cannot address, no matter what I try to do. Tnding to the grief from that time in Arizona and my feeling that God had betrayed me was tough work. The toughest I've done. But through it all I just worked at trusting God was with me even though imhad absolutely no sign that affirmed that....until now. At some point I want to be able to put into words what this has felt lime, and the profound anchor that trust provided for me through a very rocky time.Terrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667178624061122421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-44255913426498167472011-08-11T21:13:33.228-04:002011-08-11T21:13:33.228-04:00Last bit, also password protected at my blog (http...Last bit, also password protected at my blog (http://revrosa.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/something-the-final-part/). The password is life. Thank youRosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14318759796476070253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907440527168314545.post-40360938613591332302011-08-11T12:55:11.551-04:002011-08-11T12:55:11.551-04:00Wow. Your insight about grief as failure to notic...Wow. Your insight about grief as failure to notice is particularly helpful to me. I don't know if you remember that last year, when I was going on my first 8-day silent retreat, you recommended I take a camera. I did, and since then, it has been a wonderful "inviter to notice". It kept me going while I was in Panama and would try to walk daily with my camera. I've come back to a hectic life where I have done less of noticing. I am thinking that is so connected to the desolation I get so overwhelmed by. Thank you again, Robin.Rosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14318759796476070253noreply@blogger.com