The Freedom of being Human!

The truth of the following has been impacting me lately: I am human. This means I cannot do everything. I cannot be everything to everybody. I cannot be consistent all the time. I am limited. I will disappoint you, I will hurt you. I also may encourage you and shed beauty on your life. The fact that I am human has been liberating, it lets me off the hook from being limitless & perfect.

Here are my favourite excerpts of a prayer I came across by Francis of Assisi:

I thank you Lord Jesus, for becoming a human being so I do not have to pretend or try to be a God. I thank you for becoming finite and limited so I do not have to pretend that I am infinite and limitless..I thanks you for becoming inferior so I do not have to pretend that I am superior to anyone...

I thank you for becoming weak, so I don't have to be strong. I thank you for being willing to be considered imperfect and strange, so I do not have to be perfect and normal [you mean, I can be my quirky self??]. I thank you for being willing to be disapproved of, so I do not have to try so hard to be approved of and liked.

I thank you for being considered a failure, so I do not have to give my life trying to pretend I'm a success. I thank you for being wrong by the standards of religion and state, so I do not have to be right anywhere.

Falcon Beach Ranch

Orignially, Dono and I booked this wknd away b/c we weren't seeing much of each other. However, since pregnancy, we've seen a whole lot of each other! Nonetheless, it was a wonderful wknd of rest and of drinking in the outdoors. We spent our time searching for baby names, reading "The Shack" to each other (yes, it is taking us forever to read this book together even though it is awesome!), comparing differing quotes from a favourite author, and watched "Into the Wild" & some Chinese documentary...

Chewing on this one...

One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem. You are always the locus of conversion and transformation. It is always about you first of all. Always. You can even use that as a good litmus test for authentic spirituality. Is it keeping you listening for God? Is it keeping your own feet to the fire? Then it is probably healthy teaching. Is it leading you to suspicion, paranoia, accusation and blaming? Then it is from the "Accuser," which is a quite significant New Testament name for Satan.

-Rohr & Feister

Heavenly Grapefruit! Thou art so Glorious!

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The cat is out of the bag, yes, I am pregnant. Strange & Wonderful.

Anyways, my diet has significantly changed. I am now an intense carnivore. Yesterday, I had turkey for lunch and fish for supper. I have actually had meat fantasies where I’m sitting amongst piles of meat and devouring them. I’m assuming my body is in need of some protein??

And today, I discovered a new food life-saver: citrus!! Thank-you God for citrus. I just devoured a grapefruit,..mmmm…so tasty!

Who We Are

"What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it -- we're called children of God! That's who we really are" 1 John 3

When we discover ourselves "hidden with Christ in God," we don't need any kind of self-image at all...This is what will happen when we expose ourselves to silence and stop exposing ourselves to the judgments of the world; when we stop continuously "picking up" the energy of others; when we stop thinking about what others think of us and what they take us to be. We are who we are in God -- no more and no less..

We have to discover what we have always been in God. When we get to this place, we will know and love ourselves, in spite of all the negative and opposing evidence. It is the spacious place of the soul. To live there is finally to be at home.

Simplicity by R. Rohr

Happy Happy!