Featured posts & The Journey to Orthodoxy 05 Jul 2007 01:16 pm
What are you doing in the next 5 minutes?
Think it’s nothing of consequence? Think the small stuff doesn’t matter?
I don’t beleive that life is made up of big events, like we leap mountain top to mountain top. As much as I am defined by some certain very large events in my life, for instance, being born, getting married, burying a child, moving to a new state…I am moreso defined by a million little momentary choices made day by day, year by year. Choices that build upon one another like bricks, to make an eventual wall, a life that has been lived one moment at a time. It’s why I think what milk I drink matters in the long-run and why gardening is more than growing food. It’s why making myself wash dishes when I don’t feel like it or praying when I can’t find words has value in my eternity. Kissing babies when they fall and being there to do it is Kingdom Work and if my bread comes from a plastic bag or my oven, it affects my spirit.
Inspiration today came from Fr. Stephen’s post “Losing My Religion”.
on 05 Jul 2007 at 1:20 pm 1.Sarah said …
Guess I’d better turn off the computer and do the dishes then, huh? Geez, always inspiring me to do things I would rather ignore. Way to rain on my parade!
on 05 Jul 2007 at 1:35 pm 2.bannergranny said …
As always, and thanks to Father Stephen as well….You have blessed my heart today with this post…as I make costumes for the children’s musical…it seems like a small thing but as I think on it…at least one little boy who is 1 of 8, and very poor…that little brown tunic will make him into “Gideon” for just a few moments and who knows what could come of that.
on 05 Jul 2007 at 4:05 pm 3.Ampersand said …
Really, really like the beautiful and absolutely clear way you presented this principle. It made me aware that we live both for now (wash the dishes) and later (the kind of milk) at the very same time, and that’s how we build our lives.
on 05 Jul 2007 at 9:40 pm 4.dalimama said …
I think you’re right
Somewhere in there is the planning for the future and setting goals for the big stuff we want to accomplish but the everyday choices are that which gets us there
Sort of like the idea that I’d love to grow everything myself and buy only organic but I don’t have the means to do that right now so it’s the small choices I make that get me there little by little
great post
(sorry for the missing punctuation- most of my punctuation keys have decided to not work as well as my “o” which I am copying and pasting
currently to post)
on 05 Jul 2007 at 10:57 pm 5.Cathy in Jax said …
Hi Tia,
Just back from vacation and have spent the evening catching up on the blogs since June 12th. I am proud to say that I have read every single blog that you’ve written since you started. And, today I have the same thought that I had when your mom told me to check out your blog. And that is, “That girl can write.” I told your mom that I would read your blogs on a weekly basis because once a day wasn’t enough. When I’m reading a book that I am just loving, the closer that I get to the end, the slower I read, because I don’t want it to end. That’s they way your blogs are.
I loved, loved, loved Paul the Britains Got Talent opera singer. But, I especially loved what you wrote. We can all learn from that. Last year I told my DH about Americas Got Talent, that they should not allow some of these people who have worked in Vegas for 15 years or their profession “is” what there talent is to be on the show. I want to see everday blokes that have God given talents that don’t make their living from it.
I am going to love, love, love making those cinammon buns. I cannot wait to try them.
I am a sucker for kittens and puppies. There is a program here in Jax, an organization that will spay feral cats for free. They will give you a trap to catch them, you bring them to be spayed or neutered and then you can release them back where you found them. I have 10 mo. old “Prince Harry” that was the product of a calico at my office that had litter after litter. Mom is now in possession of my granddaughter. You might check on something like that or suggest to your county agency that they start something like that.
My DH dug us a drainfield for our washing machine. We also have a septic system and tank was not sufficient for the washing machine also. When he first built it I used Downy liquid fabric softener and within a couple of years the drainfield stopped working. When we dug it up all of the rocks and the field was coated with gunky blue gunk. We realized right away that it was the Downy. Now I only use fabric dryer sheets.
On your toilets using so much water I heard this solution on the reality show “Wife Swap”. This mom went to live with an environmentaly friendly family and this was there motto for the bathroom:
“If it’s yellow let it mellow. If it’s brown flush it down.” LOL Feel free to us it if you like.
Tomorrow my stepdaugher and two of my grandchildren are making their move to Shelbyville, TN, while her husband stays here and waits for the house to sell. Please remember her. This is a big move for her family, becaue her ENTIRE family lives here in Jax. and this is going to be hard for her. She’s going to miss us and we sure are going to miss her and the kids.
Glad to be home. Keep up the good work!!!