Awake, awake to love and work

Awake, awake to love and work!
The lark is in the sky;
The fields are wet with diamond dew;
The worlds awake to cry
Their blessings on the Lord of life,
As He goes meekly by.

Come, let thy voice be one with theirs,
Shout with their shout of praise;
See how the giant sun soars up,
Great lord of years and days!
So let the love of Jesus come
And set thy soul ablaze.

To give and give, and give again,
What God hath given thee;
To spend thyself nor count the cost;
To serve right gloriously
The God Who gave all worlds that are,
And all that are to be.

another version: http://www.missionstclare.com/music/morning/Awake_to_love/awake.html

learn to lament

Eugene Peterson writes, “Lament isn’t an animal wail, an inarticulate
howl.”

“Lament notices and attends…details, images,
relationships. Pain entered
into, accepted, and owned can become
poetry,” he writes.

read more at http://aholyexperience.com/2008/02/learn-to-lament.html

just guide gently

This blog entry has been really inspiring to me....

http://aholyexperience.com/2008/08/how-to-parent-just-guide-gently.html

ACTS prayer

great blog on the ACTS way of praying

http://myderbe.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/the-acts-prayer-formula/

A mother's prayer

O Lord,
I need your help today.
I want to care
for those you've sent into my life,
to help them develop the special gifts
you've given them.
But I also want to free them
to follow their own paths
and to bring their loving wisdom
to the world.

Help me
to embrace them without clutching,
to support them without suffocating,
to correct them without crushing.

And help me
to live joyfully and playfully, myself,
so they can see your life in me
and find their way to you.
Amen.

http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/special/mother.html

i had a curry

that's what a british friend said to our Bible study group a few years ago, and we giggled the whole time afterwards because it just sounded funny. I miss Emma :(

anyways, I made a wonderful curry/dahl http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=4917.0the the other night, and it was *really* good, esp. considering that I'm the one that made it, lol. I honestly could eat this morning (scrambled with eggs), noon and night. Abbi gave me the recipe, as well as her leftovers, and inspired me to try to cook something new. When dh was living in Nepal, that is what he ate 24/7 "Dahl Bat" and i don't think this probably lived up to his expectations, but at least now i am brave enough to try other variations and perhaps even an authentic Nepali recipe. Me eating lentils....who'd have guessed ;-)

growing up in grace

an online friend wrote a few blog entries that really spoke to me and inspired me. I'm linking to them here so that i can reference it later, and in hopes that it will perhaps be thought-provoking to others :)


http://simple-gifts.blogspot.com/2006/10/growing-up-in-grace.html
http://simple-gifts.blogspot.com/2006/11/punishment-vs-discipline_01.html