Tuesday Prayers

I just found Anne Lamott on facebook.  It feels like I just found out she's living next door!   I believe I've mentioned--oh, about a hundred times--that her Bird by Bird is one of my favorite books ever.   Lately, I've been reading her latest:  Help, Thanks, Wow:  The Three Essential Prayers.

As it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up.  Things can happen.  

On Children by Kahlil Gabran

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.  

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

 You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
 
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.

 It's a beautiful Sunday morning here at Canada Garden.  The iris and peony show is in full swing.

 

Lots of excitement at Petals & Co in the past few days with prom and Open House at The Farm, so I'm just sitting back and enjoying the show this morning.  I found this quote from Marianne Williams this morning:

Magic is when you ask the universe to serve you.

Miracles are when you ask how you can best serve the universe. 

 I hope there's a show going on in your garden too!

I Can't Watch the News Anymore

Anybody else having trouble watching the news these days? Here's a post from Marianne Williamson's blog on oprah.com. entitled, "God, the Economy, and You".

It's easy to fall into fear and despair regarding the depressing economic news, but it's important to remember that spiritual principle transcends all that. God's laws are higher than economic laws, and God never goes into a recession.
So every time you hear a news report saying things are worse and are going to get worse before they get better, you might want to counter that fear-based thinking and speak your own word. Deliver your own news.
Love is the source of your good, and the source of your abundance. As you develop more and more fully your capacity to love, then miracles will occur naturally in your life....regardless of what's happening in the economy!
Whatever doors might close to us, God will open new ones...as long as our minds are willing and our hearts are open.

http://www.oprah.com/contributorblog/spirit/mariannewilliamson

And to go along with that, a little tulip therapy never hurts!

Six-Word Memoirs

I found the six-word memoir book on my new kindle. http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

Love love the song that's playing in the background of the second preview. A group called pedalsped and the song is stretch. http://www.myspace.com/pedalsped

Have a great Thursday.

Most Recklessly

This transfer from UpperCase Living describes exactly what is happening in the garden right now. Love their things!

http://uppercaseliving.com/

I just found out about this blog from the O Magazine. It's just one message after another from moms everywhere. http://postcardsfromyomomma.com/ yomama.com

TINF

http://savagechickens.com

" . . . Everything is in divine order. As surely as the stars move on their course, your loved one left at his appointed time. Already he is engulfed in a greater good, privy now to a higher order of life. . . He is fine, resting comfortably, able now to make sense of so many things."
Answered Prayers--Love Letters from the Divine by Julia Cameron

Mama says the flowers know what they are doing.

I think she's right. Nelly had her nose to the ground, checking things out.