Walking the Passage: 10 minutes of perfection set the tone for life.....................

Saturday, September 14, 2013

10 minutes of perfection set the tone for life.....................

There are many portions of yesterday I would rewrite.

There are many portions of yesterday that are precious to me and that I am very grateful for deep within.

But there are ten minutes where I stepped into perfection.

Trying to orient myself this morning to this day, it was those ten minutes that lifted my heart and started to form out my thinking.

Those ten minutes are full of the purest joy, absolute delight and strength and assurance.

This morning I have the understanding that it would be the Lord's great pleasure if I would use those ten minutes as my true North. I don't have fullness of understanding but I do possess a willingness to allow those ten minutes to wrap around me and encamp about me and my memories and be the basis of the guiding principals upon which to build my life.

We walked down the three front steps. Elizabeth and I were bare foot. The sun rising over the rock quarry shone through the trees. Elizabeth, Greg and I, all heading to the bus stop. The night before I had rediscovered the acapella version of "Be Thou My Vision." I turned on the music and it flooded over the children and I. Lizzie began to try to sing. Greg just smiled. Satisfaction filled the air. Solid. A solidness just saturated the air. All ... Everything ... was right...

Our three shadows stretched out before us and played together. At one point we were one big shadow and then we were three.... The music continued to fill the air. The trees forming a canopy over us.. Delight swirling all about us.

That which makes up Gregory, that which forms out Elizabeth... in those sweet precious early morning moments I was captivated by love and surrounded by pure joy.

Simplicity.

Hope.

Delight.

Quiet.

Not exactly solitude but a being togetherness that felt very much like a union of love and oneness that was in its essence perfection.

This morning as I sat and paused and attempted to sort through the issues that will be addressed in the next blog .. The Lord pointed to these ten minutes.

"To be with you, to be together........... Let those ten minutes be your guide towards joy."

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.