Cartwheeling through Life: Peace

A human being is part of something so much greater. We tend to experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion has become a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd ... ~ Rumi ~

listen on Scribd

"Entrust our souls to a faithful Creator in doing what is right" 1 Peter 4:19

"Faith is not a Feeling" YouTube video shared by Jess, check it out here

God, show me how to rest in your life as you give it to me. Show me how to be at peace, Amen 🙏

Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd ... ~ Rumi

Inauguration Day

at my work space

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world." C.S. Lewis Mere Christianity

Journals of old have treasures like this one

Kate's 41st birthday...Loyal Love video by The Bible Project

"Learning how to use His strength and ours together to bear our load and His. We will find His yoke an easy one and His burden a light one because, in learning from him, we have found rest for our soul..." p. 143 Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice: Experiments in Spiritual Transformation

PLNL Children's section 1.19.21

"One of the most common descriptions of God in the Hebrew Bible, and it’s almost impossible to translate into any other language! "Khesed" This word is rich with meaning, combining the ideas of love, loyalty, and generosity. Join us as we explore this fascinating Hebrew word and how it shapes our understanding of God’s character." Bible Project Podcast

"Quiet isn't always peace" ~ Amanda Gorman

Rest for our soul is Rest in God. Our soul is at peace only when it is with God, as a child with its mother." p.148 Renovation of the Heart in Daily Practice by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson

“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.” – Ansel Adams

thank you Priscilla

"The Thunder, Perfect Mind : This mysterious poem, discovered among the gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi, is narrated by a female divine revealer. 'Thunder Perfect Mind' is a marvelous, strange poem. It speaks in the voice of a feminine divine power, but one that unites all opposites...It's a poem which sees the radiance of the divine in all aspects of human life, from the sordidness of the slums of Cairo or Alexandria, as they would have been, to the people of great wealth, from men to women to slaves. In that poem, the divine appears in every, and the most unexpected, forms.... source