Last week I listened to our minister talk about balance in life and the importance of inner peace. She talked about how important it is to have balance in one's life in order to achieve that inner peace. She also talked about it needing a community to raise a child. Today I wonder about how someone could be so out of balance in their life as to attack a kindergarten full of children. How can it be that as a community of caring people that we did sense that this man was falling out of balance before such a tragic event occurred.
I ask you to pray for the survivors of that horrible event today that they will somehow find a way to not let that evil make a permanent impact and to somehow find something positive from today. These events today have impacted all of us either directly or indirectly. The real question is what if anything will we learn about ourselves today. My calm lake certainly has some waves in it today.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Some people need a little Hope
This is the week in advent where we celebrate hope. As a stroke survivor, I am truly blessed to have the functionality that I have. There was a time when I hoped to be able to be able to get out of bed by myself. To be able to stand up on my own. Then to be able to walk again. To me, hope is about opportunity, it is about self-dignity and it is about the future. However, for some people, the daily struggle watching their plodding footsteps keeps their head too far down to see the horizon, never mind the sunshine that is in the sky overhead.
This is the first week in the Christian calender leading into preparing for Christmas. Providing hope to someone can be as small a thing as offering a few encouraging words. So while we are buzzing around in a mad blitz to get Christmas shopping completed, my hope is that we all stop and take a minute to think about providing hope to someone else. Everyone in our community needs to be able to enjoy the sunshine.
Remember, starting something new requires taking a first step and lean forward, the next step will follow.
This is the first week in the Christian calender leading into preparing for Christmas. Providing hope to someone can be as small a thing as offering a few encouraging words. So while we are buzzing around in a mad blitz to get Christmas shopping completed, my hope is that we all stop and take a minute to think about providing hope to someone else. Everyone in our community needs to be able to enjoy the sunshine.
Remember, starting something new requires taking a first step and lean forward, the next step will follow.
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