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“If you don’t love yourself you’ll never feel like anyone else does either”
-Bridgett Devoue “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Why didn’t God answer my prayers, about nightmares, and cancer? If God knows everything, why didn’t God do anything?
Is heaven real? Is hell? What do you think about evolution, mom? When I was a teenager, I had this dream every now and again. In the dream, I would be walking along the grimy streets of Puerto Ayacucho, a small Venezuelan town. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold it would be a merrier world.
I am a recovering natural health fanatic. I have followed a “coffee and gum” diet. I have restricted calories and implemented intermittent fasting. Shh… Listen closely.
Can you hear it? The heavy, faint but steady beat of the kettledrum as it rips a hole in the universe wide wide to allow the triumphant herald of the bugles? Sometimes, you’ll tune into a podcast, a sermon, a song, a poem or a story, and you will be surprised by tears. And as those tears wet your tender cheeks, you will realize you’ve been sad, sad, sad, for so very long.
These past weeks have been tough.
I wish I could say I was a really healthy, super disciplined person. The truth is, I fall somewhere close to the middle of the continuum between lazy, good-for-nothing and winner, winner, chicken dinner. O daughter Babylon, you devastator!
Happy shall they be who pay you back What you have done to us! Happy shall they be who take your little ones And dash them against the rock! -Psalm 137: 8-9 |
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