"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Saturday, January 9, 2010

My Place Today



I am at Caribou Coffee in Duluth this afternoon enjoying some coffee and contemplating life. Here is my thought for this afternoon…

“Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.”
(Ecclesiastes 11:1 NIV)

“I am the bread of life.” (John 6:48 TNIV)

In the community of grace give of your life generously as you receive life from God and then you will have a life in abundance. A shared life, in all the fullness of the human experience and condition - give yourself away so you can receive yourself again. Solidarity in living and sharing whatever it is you may be going through, whether it is suffering or joy, so that all may know that they are not alone. We all can be the comforters and supporters and dispensers of grace, the vessels thro which God can speak and love.
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