What's THAT About?

You know the gesture some religions make after prayer etc...of drawing an imaginary cross from their forehead to their chest and shoulder to shoulder? I've always wondered about that...I thought the little blurb below was a great way to think about that:

What’s the cure for selfishness? Get your self out of your eye by getting your eye off of your self. Quit staring at that little self, and focus on your great Savior.
A friend who is an Episcopalian minister explains the reason he closes his prayers with the sign of the cross. “The touching of my forehead and chest makes a capital ‘I.’ The gesture of touching first one should, then the other, cuts the ‘I’ in half.”
Isn’t that a work of the Cross? A smaller “I” and a greater Christ? Don’t focus on yourself; focus on all that you have in Christ. Focus on the fellowship of the Spirit, the affection and compassion on heaven.

-Max Lucado
A Love Worth Giving

Words are very...

unnecessary....(Depeche Mode reference)

I have been a bit quiet, I know. Enjoy it. Eventually this "state" that I am in will pass; I will have learned something, and I will be unable to NOT share it. But in the meantime, I just don't have much to say. Either that or I am not in a place where I can say it well.

So for now---Enjoy the Silence. ;)

COL (Cry Out Loud)

This quite literally made me cry out loud ( a little different than "laugh out loud"). Must be the mom in me or hormones or something. It never ceases to amaze me how deeply and strongly our hearts are attached to our children's. It is a mysterious and miraculous thing. I felt like I was right there in the midst of her story and situation. I sobbed at my desk when I read it. WOW. Maybe it's because I know them, maybe not. Either way, I thought it was worth reading.