I planted morning glory seeds nearly a decade ago and have not planted another since. And yet, every year a morning glory vine pops up somewhere in a pot or flower bed -- re-seeded by Mother Nature. I trust she's got a better handle on gardening than I ever will!
In the video I ask: Where do you have the tenacity to keep popping up?
First I recorded using the "clips" Apple app on my phone, instead of "Zoom clips beta". All fine and good until I tried to create a link for the video using Dropbox -- numerous times! The computer gremlins laughed at me.
I brought the laptop outside and recorded again using "Zoom clips beta". The computer gremlins are rolling on the ground in fits of mirth as the "processing" clock spins without signs of yielding. 🤷🏻♀️
All this to say. We did it and will share the video if it ever becomes available.
We have a book to publish and refuse to spend anymore time in a tug of war with naughty gremlins. 😜
A “StillLife” is Still Life! Responding to the morning glory photo. I’ve always been dazzled by those bluish beauties! There’s almost an “electrified violet” hue to my less than perfect color detection cones. 🤷🏽
Dazzling just the same.
“You can’t have too much Morning Glory
If your life is filled with Joy
A picture here and videos there
Soon you’ll see their trumpets everywhere.”
(Found written on a hawk feather that fell from the sky yesterday 😎)
For the record, you and the Band of Muses have proven your trustworthiness over and over. 👏🏼👏🏼
I am fresh back from three weeks at www.chq.org. Among other things that means I am actually reading things that come to my inbox. And, am finding the time and energy to respond. Both of today's quotes at the end of your post are problematical and prompt comments;
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
~George MacDonald
Having been the beneficiary of being "unconditionally loved" by another there can be no greater compliment. Perhaps, trusted is necessarily included?
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
~Corrie Ten Boom
For certain I would never trust anything to a "known" G_d. Does your known G_d know my known G_d?
I haven't express in words how I interpret the quotes... nor have you?
Is it possible one or both of us are making assumptions that aren't true?
I've recently revisited The Four Agreements and have been doing my best to keep them front of mind:
1.) Be impeccable with your word.
2.) Don't take anything personally.
3.) Don't make assumptions.
4.) Always do your best.
Love and trust for me are "yes, and". I can love the entire world unconditionally, but without trust, it is challenging for me to maintain a relationship.
As for knowing God, I defer to a (paraphrased) favorite quote from Pope Francis: "Instead of a problem to be solved, life is a mystery to be contemplated with gladness and joy." I believe there is a higher power... and I am not it. My job is to show with love and trust -- to have faith that I am part of something bigger.
Look, for me the idea of "trust" is that it is relative. It depends on the person and the context. My idea of "love" is that it is not relative. That is, the unconditional variety... that I was referencing. As for G_d it was the "known" that the writer prefaced "G_d" that is "problematical" for "me". Lastly, I was not trying to provoke anything. My comment came more in the form of a conversation with myself. And as Susan Scott remarks "Occasionally the conversation involves others". Apparently, I neglected to recognize that when I commented.
A note from Loveletterist:
Aaaaack!
Day five's video balances on a metaphor.
I planted morning glory seeds nearly a decade ago and have not planted another since. And yet, every year a morning glory vine pops up somewhere in a pot or flower bed -- re-seeded by Mother Nature. I trust she's got a better handle on gardening than I ever will!
In the video I ask: Where do you have the tenacity to keep popping up?
First I recorded using the "clips" Apple app on my phone, instead of "Zoom clips beta". All fine and good until I tried to create a link for the video using Dropbox -- numerous times! The computer gremlins laughed at me.
I brought the laptop outside and recorded again using "Zoom clips beta". The computer gremlins are rolling on the ground in fits of mirth as the "processing" clock spins without signs of yielding. 🤷🏻♀️
All this to say. We did it and will share the video if it ever becomes available.
We have a book to publish and refuse to spend anymore time in a tug of war with naughty gremlins. 😜
Grateful for our relationship of trust!
A “StillLife” is Still Life! Responding to the morning glory photo. I’ve always been dazzled by those bluish beauties! There’s almost an “electrified violet” hue to my less than perfect color detection cones. 🤷🏽
Dazzling just the same.
“You can’t have too much Morning Glory
If your life is filled with Joy
A picture here and videos there
Soon you’ll see their trumpets everywhere.”
(Found written on a hawk feather that fell from the sky yesterday 😎)
For the record, you and the Band of Muses have proven your trustworthiness over and over. 👏🏼👏🏼
Yes! This variety is what I would call 'magenta with a fuchsia star center'.
Hawks can write? 😉
I’ll send you the feather!😉
I'll keep my eyes open for it!
Shazbot! That hawk used disappearing ink!
I am fresh back from three weeks at www.chq.org. Among other things that means I am actually reading things that come to my inbox. And, am finding the time and energy to respond. Both of today's quotes at the end of your post are problematical and prompt comments;
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
~George MacDonald
Having been the beneficiary of being "unconditionally loved" by another there can be no greater compliment. Perhaps, trusted is necessarily included?
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
~Corrie Ten Boom
For certain I would never trust anything to a "known" G_d. Does your known G_d know my known G_d?
You can no longer upset my apple cart BP.
I happen to like the quotes very much.
I’ll give you this… God is impossible to “know”, although believing in God’s existence is no longer shakeable for me.
One.
I like them too but in an entirely different way.
Are they still problematical?
It is not that they are problematical or for that matter right or wrong. I just see them differently.
That is a fascinating comment!
Can we dig a little deeper?
I haven't express in words how I interpret the quotes... nor have you?
Is it possible one or both of us are making assumptions that aren't true?
I've recently revisited The Four Agreements and have been doing my best to keep them front of mind:
1.) Be impeccable with your word.
2.) Don't take anything personally.
3.) Don't make assumptions.
4.) Always do your best.
Love and trust for me are "yes, and". I can love the entire world unconditionally, but without trust, it is challenging for me to maintain a relationship.
As for knowing God, I defer to a (paraphrased) favorite quote from Pope Francis: "Instead of a problem to be solved, life is a mystery to be contemplated with gladness and joy." I believe there is a higher power... and I am not it. My job is to show with love and trust -- to have faith that I am part of something bigger.
Your turn?
Look, for me the idea of "trust" is that it is relative. It depends on the person and the context. My idea of "love" is that it is not relative. That is, the unconditional variety... that I was referencing. As for G_d it was the "known" that the writer prefaced "G_d" that is "problematical" for "me". Lastly, I was not trying to provoke anything. My comment came more in the form of a conversation with myself. And as Susan Scott remarks "Occasionally the conversation involves others". Apparently, I neglected to recognize that when I commented.