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Catherine (semi active)
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Jun 11, 2024 04:07AM
Whoa, that's early for a walk XD
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(Thanks. lol. It’s 6:00 here and I’m a morning bird. I set my alarm for early enough that I would have time to get up and get some quick walking in and still have time to take a shower and eat breakfast before leaving for work. lol I’m also using this time to work on my audiobook)
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Bad(@Bets Oh my. May God fill you with enough energy for the day 😆 Oh, I didn't know you're working on an audiobook! What is it for/about?)
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(It’s my Anxious for Nothing audiobook. I’m just listening to it. I typically only do non fiction with my audiobooks.)
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song (at least I think I know a song that says that, but I'm listening to another song rn, so I can't remember how it goes lol)
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Lauren Daigle (I love that song. The Lauren Daigle one.)
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I heard it live in concert (this is actually true :))
That’s so cool Bella :)) it’s one of my fav songs by them, along with To The Dreamers
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"How you do keep harping on that! As if it was the thing that actually mattered!"
I’m afraid if I become a writer I’ll end up as an alcoholic divorcee by the time I’m 40 😅
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What would you write about anyway?
But I must! “From childhood’s hour I have not been as others were.” How can I not be devoted to ‘this mystery which binds me still”? When you perceive the Spirit hovering over the waters and know ‘in the beginning was the Word’ how can you not write after communion with the Word? ‘What our eyes have seen and our hands have touched’?
So I accept in the end I’ll be alone with The Alone.
So I accept in the end I’ll be alone with The Alone.
Does it also have meatballs?
(Stephen, I'm actually pretty impressed by that. It's actually a lot better reply than I thought it'd be.)
Thanks Jasmine 😅
Would you like to read a poem that makes me cry almost every time I read it? It’s called The Pulley and it’s by George Herbert.
The Pulley
BY GEORGE HERBERT
When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by,
“Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we can.
Let the world’s riches, which dispersèd lie,
Contract into a span.”
So strength first made a way;
Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure.
When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure,
Rest in the bottom lay.
“For if I should,” said he,
“Bestow this jewel also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature;
So both should losers be.
“Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness;
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.”
Would you like to read a poem that makes me cry almost every time I read it? It’s called The Pulley and it’s by George Herbert.
The Pulley
BY GEORGE HERBERT
When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by,
“Let us,” said he, “pour on him all we can.
Let the world’s riches, which dispersèd lie,
Contract into a span.”
So strength first made a way;
Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure.
When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure,
Rest in the bottom lay.
“For if I should,” said he,
“Bestow this jewel also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me,
And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature;
So both should losers be.
“Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness;
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.”
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.”*
May toss him to my breast.”*
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Poets(You're welcome, Stephen! That's a really great poem! I really like it!)
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Stephen wrote: "That’s so cool Bella :)) it’s one of my fav songs by them, along with To The Dreamers"(I heard that one live too. It was back in 2015. I ALMOST got to see them the next year too, but unfortunately didn't. And I love both of those songs too.)
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