randomness
i'm sick. i'm trying not to get strep throat. i feel like i swallowed a piece of metal so we'll see how that goes.
but the amount of time i've spent laying and reading today has brought me to a lot of great thoughts, some my own, most from others. (hence the amount of articles i've posted on my blog in the past hour) but in the midst of long articles some statements have jumped out at me along the way. i started cutting and pasting them so that i could come back across them some day. but i figured instead of saving them to a document and tucking them away to feel inspired when i find them next, i'd share them so maybe someone else can grow from them too. some of them came out of the articles i already posted, but if you're like me, you probably didn't read them anyway, so let me give you the highlights and the snippets of wisdom that seemed worth noting today. welcome to the randomness...
"I was moved by Mother Teresa’s simple response to the question of God’s goodness in light of suffering. “If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation,” she said, “it is not because God didn’t care for them, but because you and I didn’t give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise—in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”
"Christ has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out
yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;
and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now."
-Saint Teresa of Avila
rachel held evan's article on haiti
"As the Apostle Paul put it, "Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality, as it is written, 'He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little."
(1 Corinthians 8:13-15)
"I figure that no matter where we find ourselves in our various journeys, there will always be someone up ahead who has gone a little farther. Sometimes the distance between us is real; sometimes it is just a mirage. Sometimes we are right to try and follow; sometimes we need to go our own way. But every day, we have to make the decision to either learn from our fellow travelers or glare at the back of their heads. My guess is that, should we catch up, we will find that even our most intimidating companions have been walking over footprints all along."
rachel evans
"Write because you must, and because you have something burning in your heart."
“One easy step toward what is not right today is two more painful steps you’ll have to take tomorrow.”
"Share each others burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important."
anne jackson
"I view travel as life’s great educator. There’s no better way to learn about people and nature and your place in the world."
travel blog
but the amount of time i've spent laying and reading today has brought me to a lot of great thoughts, some my own, most from others. (hence the amount of articles i've posted on my blog in the past hour) but in the midst of long articles some statements have jumped out at me along the way. i started cutting and pasting them so that i could come back across them some day. but i figured instead of saving them to a document and tucking them away to feel inspired when i find them next, i'd share them so maybe someone else can grow from them too. some of them came out of the articles i already posted, but if you're like me, you probably didn't read them anyway, so let me give you the highlights and the snippets of wisdom that seemed worth noting today. welcome to the randomness...
"I was moved by Mother Teresa’s simple response to the question of God’s goodness in light of suffering. “If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation,” she said, “it is not because God didn’t care for them, but because you and I didn’t give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise—in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”
"Christ has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion for the world is to look out
yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good;
and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now."
-Saint Teresa of Avila
rachel held evan's article on haiti
"As the Apostle Paul put it, "Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality, as it is written, 'He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little."
(1 Corinthians 8:13-15)
"I figure that no matter where we find ourselves in our various journeys, there will always be someone up ahead who has gone a little farther. Sometimes the distance between us is real; sometimes it is just a mirage. Sometimes we are right to try and follow; sometimes we need to go our own way. But every day, we have to make the decision to either learn from our fellow travelers or glare at the back of their heads. My guess is that, should we catch up, we will find that even our most intimidating companions have been walking over footprints all along."
rachel evans
"Write because you must, and because you have something burning in your heart."
“One easy step toward what is not right today is two more painful steps you’ll have to take tomorrow.”
"Share each others burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important."
anne jackson
"I view travel as life’s great educator. There’s no better way to learn about people and nature and your place in the world."
travel blog
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