Simplicity

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, “I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.”

Jack Kornfield

Fun Field Day! - Old School Water Balloon Toss!

We had a Fun Field Day! - Here's a pic of an Old School Water Balloon Toss!

Don't go back to sleep

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

Don't go back to sleep.

I can't believe...

I can't believe that we were lying in our graves dreaming things that we might have been, coulda been, maybe! ~ Dave Matthews

Do what you have to do

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. 

Reach out to the risk of living

It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risk of living with both arms open. One has to embrace the world like a lover. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence.


~Morris West






Courtesy of Inward/Outward blog

Reflections on scarcity, abundance and faith

Bishop Mark Beckwith of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark has a nice reflection on abundance and scarcity...words we need to hear ...

Scarcity, Abundance, and Faith
The scarcity is real. But so is the abundance. You just have to dig down a bit harder to find it; and a bit further to trust it. Jesus was no stranger to scarcity. In the economic system of his day, Jesus and his fellow Jews were no more than sharecroppers to Roman overlords. They had few rights, and fewer freedoms. Talk about scarcity. 

And yet Jesus preached abundance. Over and over again. About mustard seeds, pearls of great price and demonstrating how a few table scraps can feed 5,000 people. He was not a first century Pollyanna, nor was he offering some sort of economic panacea. He was pointing people to another, more abundant reality than the scarce circumstances that surrounded them. It required -- and requires, faith to see the abundance. 

Read more HERE 

Every blessing in abundance

And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work 
~2 Corinthians 9:8