“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not.
The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or
something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of
you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water.
The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody
else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own
life. These are all prayers in their way.”
~ Frederick Buechner
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| (Photo: Mine ~ At the Brown Dog Coffee Shop)
At the The Brown Dog Coffee Shop in Paris Ontario where
I like to spend time writing, reading and drinking coffee when I am home in
Canada you get a spoon in you cup to stir in whatever it is you may add (I
think it is a Canadian thing).
Anyway, as I was sitting here looking at my cup
of coffee with a spoon in it, the thought occurred to me – friends are like
spoons. Certain friends, just the right ones come along at particular times and
seasons in your life when you need a cup grace and these friends/spoons help
stir whatever it is you need into your life to help make it beautiful and
bearable while at a the café of life on our journey of discovery.
A prayer for everyone to experience ~ even if fleeting:
To courageously put the past to rest ~ to hopefully
anticipate the future ~ to authentically live in each present moment ~ to
glimpse grace in these most difficult of things
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