Mike King

African Proverb

“If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.”  African Proverb

                                                                                         

Tears

"Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it." Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Easing back in...

I've been thinking about resuming my blog posting.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Living

"Finding ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."  Emily Dickinson

Breathing comes in pairs...

Breathing comes in pairs
Except for twice
One begins and one's goodbye

               from Enough for Now by The Fray

Merton Quote

'What do I fear most? To forget who I am, to be lost in what I am not.'

Thomas Merton, Journal 1966

When cash runs out...

"When cash runs out that’s when thinking starts."

Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence

St Teresa of Avila

I'm working today on content development for a retreat resource on the scourge of human trafficking.  I came across this profound, yet simple quote from St. Teresa of Avila which is very powerful and convicting in light of the context of God's mission for us to work for justice.

“Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks with compassion on the world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world.”

I can't hear what you're saying...

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

THE GRACIOUSNESS OF UNCERTAINTY

Here is Oswald Chambers entry from yesterday's My Utmost for His Highest.  So powerful.

"It doth not yet appear what we shall be." 1 John 3:2

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We imagine that we have to reach some end, but that is not the nature of spiritual life. The nature of spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty, consequently we do not make our nests anywhere. Common sense says - "Well, supposing I were in that condition . . ." We cannot suppose ourselves in any condition we have never been in. Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life: gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness, it should be rather an expression of breathless expectation. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, He packs our life with surprises all the time. When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him. Jesus said, "Except ye become as little children." Spiritual life is the life of a child. We are not uncertain of God, but uncertain of what He is going to do next. If we are only certain in our beliefs, we get dignified and severe and have the ban of finality about our views; but when we are rightly related to God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy.

"Believe also in Me," said Jesus, not - "Believe certain things about Me." Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come. Remain loyal to Him.

ht to Beth Mercer