here.

You will find stability at the moment when you discover that God is everwhere,

that you do not need to seek God elsewhere,

that God is here,

and if you do not find God here it is useless to go and search elsewhere

because it is not God that is absent from us,

it is we who are absent from God...

This is important because it is only at the moment you recognize this

that you can truly find the fullness of the Kingdom of God in all its richness within you.

 

Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

oddities

I've developed a weird behavior.

For the last several months, when I lay down for the night and should immediately drift off to sleep...I don't.

I grab my phone and read the news: Mlive, Huffpost, and sometimes ABCnews (in that order).

Then, something related to what I read will usually pop into my head, so I'll wikipedia that. naturally.

This starts a crazy cycle of wikipedia'ing all sorts of things....my craziness continues 'till my eyes become heavy (usually between 12:30 and 1 am), or I can't think of another thing to "look up" at the moment.

So wierd. So exhausting.
Yes, I learn a few things, but really, I need sleep more than I need random bits of information.

Not sure why I started all this, but it needs to stop!
I am questioning my neurotic tendencies. lol.

Carry on Warrior

I took in this book throughout the week. If it hadn't been from the library, it would be littered with underlines from cover to cover. Thankful for another fresh voice!

Here are some lines from Glennon that resonated with me:

"That's how you can tell that your'e filling yourself with the wrong things. You use a lot of energy, and in the end you feel emptier and less comfortable than ever."

"Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself"

"People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help"

"I like to compare God's love to the sunrise. That sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad you've been the night before. It shines without judgment. It never withholds. It warms the sinners, the saints, the druggies, the cheerleaders--the saved and the heathens alike..."

"It is not my job to fill myself. It's just my job to notice my emptiness and find graceful ways to live as a broken, unfilled human"

 

"When God speaks to you by making your heart hurt for another, by giving you compassion, just do something. Please do not ignore God whispering to you"

 

"I am a child of God, and so is everyone else. We are all on the same side. And so in each new person, I see an invitation to know a new side of God. There are as many sides of him as there are people walking the earth. I think that's why he keeps making people. He's not done telling us about himself yet"

 

"Maybe hostessing is not really about the host, but the guest. Maybe it's a scared spiritual practice because every single person who crosses our doorsteps is a gift, is Jesus really. And each guest has something to teach us if we're present enough to learn. Maybe hospitality is not about my home, or my food, or my lack of stuff. Maybe it's just about soaking people in"

 

"There is beauty to be found in the pain. Life is brutal, but it's also beautiful. Life is brutiful. So I look hard for the beauty"