II: Farewell Mr. Lingers

"I had been looking for you for quite some time, and now that you're right here before me things aren't the way I imagined. I'm not dressed in the right clothes, I don't have the right hairdo, it's raining and cold out, and I'm late for a meeting. Either way, if I don't tell you now, perhaps I never will."

Mr. Lingers was taken aback to see his friend after so much time.

"Ms. Blinters, I had no idea you were going to be here - ..."

"Yes?"

"..I'm just surprised"

As always Mr. Lingers was short on words, he was one of those outgoing introvert types whose inner nature is that of a louder mind than tongue.

"You once asked me why I never spoke with Ms. Lares, and I told you that it was none of your concern - basically that it was between us. What I wish I would have told you, or rather asked, is for you to consider why Ms. Lares never came to me herself with the issue. You see, I never had anything against Ms. Lares in that period, in fact we had both talked over issues years in the brewing. So to know that she felt not only comfortable to tell you that I had not spoken with her, but to involve you in our issue whatever it may have been speaks volumes - at least to me. Perhaps you were offended by my reply to you, but the truth is I don't agree with what I believe her to have begun. Much more for Ms. Lares to have spoken down about me - no matter how minor - to you, only highlights the past to me and that she has not changed much. Ms. Lares is still the same girl who told me that I needed to find someone to befriend my own age. The irony here is evident."

"You came all the way here to talk to me about Ms. Lares?"

"The role of Ms. Lares in our friendship is a lot more significant than you may ever realize, perhaps because by the time you do you will both be in agreement about something I can and will no longer prevent. I am here to try and help you understand an issue that I can't actually tell you about."

"I wish you would stop talking in riddles."

"Oh, Mr. Lingers, how deeply I reciprocate that feeling.."

To be continued...

When I understand family, I come to understand why God is love.

Your love is Green and Whole

Have you ever tried a snack or food from one of those whole foods or health grocery stores?

Just now, I was finishing up a half of my Subway cookies (gingerbread & double-chocolate) on our way out of the house. I didn't have much time to make something, so I also brought along a lemon fig bar. Two completely different snacks on the nutritional value chart
:-) As I was eating I began to think that God's love is a lot like that lemon fig bar.

Not a lot of people want to consider lemon fig bars for a couple of reasons: they are a bit more costly than other snacks, and simply because they are healthy. Although there seems to be somewhat of a health trend with my generation, it's so much easier to just opt for a 60¢ cookie at a deli down the street. The cookie tastes good, and by golly gee if it's from Subway how bad can it be?

Each Subway cookie has 18g of sugar and 30 carbs, opposed to the fig bar nutritional content of 10g of sugar and 20 carbs. Needless to say that because the ingredients for the fig bars are natural, the bars become a sort of super food. Yes, I went there.

After finishing my fig bar I don't feel like I want to eat more like with the cookies, I felt satisfied.

We really are what we eat- i guess this puts me somewhere in the middle. :/ More than anything we are what we mentally consume. 

I saw a friend post this today, and thought it was too good not to share. :)

Love::Insanity

They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. I think of how God pursues us, and how we have free will. God already knows what our final choice will be, but in a sense we still have to make that choice. Would it be wrong to say that God pursuing His children is God doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results from us? Would it be okay to say that love is insanity?

So it is the winner and runner are quite the same...

I have spent years trying to actuate a certain image for myself, often without realizing that the most ‘lovely’ image of myself was quite possibly throughout my journey of life. Throughout the journey most are unaware that they are being watched or admired. In contrast, individuals who are at the destination or believe themselves to be so are in reality just on another journey entirely. So it is that the winner and the runner are both quite the same. The ideal is to believe that everything is a journey and everything can be accomplished in time, patience, humility.

#lifeisahighway journey life easiersaidthandone peacebestill triedandtested

The Silence of God

 Is the silence a thornbush, halting my path? 

Is the silence the whisper of God?