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Dear God

We struggle, we grow weary, we grow tired. We are exhausted, we are distressed, we despair. We give up. we fall down, we lat go. We cry. We are empty, we grow calm, we are ready. We wait quietly.

A small, shy truth arrives. Arrives from without and within. Arrives and it is born. Simple, steady, clear. Like a mirror, like a bell, like a flame. Like rain in summer. A precious truth arrives and is born within us. Within our emptiness.

We accept it, we observe it, we absorb it. We surrender to our bare truth. We are nourished, we are changed. We are blessed. We rise up.

For this we give thanks,

Amen.

Leunig

Wow....

Thoes who know me well (anybody who had ever met me really) knows how much i love U2. Their lyrics have such power to them, and so do the words of Larry Mullen Jr, Adam Clayton, The Edge and, of course, Bono.
So there is a button up the top of this blog......the 'next blog' tab...you get some shockers, but then every once in a while you will come across a gem.
I was doing the said action, when i came across a blog that had a youtube video of Bono's acceptance speech from the NAACP Image Awards, for which he was the Chairman Award's Winner.
In a lot of my classes with Yits, the idea of 'loving you neigbour as you love yourself' has been on high rotation. It is one of the most paramount teachings of the Bible...in my eyes thats the majority of what this whole thing is about.

Watching this clip...it really hit home about how much it really means. And as much as we can say it..doing it is what really counts.

Bono's acceptance speech


BYW...if someone (*cough bec) could tell me how to get a clip, such as the above, into my blog...that would be swell :)

ooh la la

Le destin fabuleux de l'analise


Everything sounds better in French..

If you ever get the chance to listen to it (or if i love you enough that you can borrow it ) The Cat Empire do a fabuleux version of Hotel California in French. Freakin rad as

linguistic bliss

Last night at work, I was reading to a little boy, who i used to look after when he was about 8 months old. He is almost 2 now.

I was pointing to different objects on the page and he was naming them. "teddy bear, plate, shoes...." all was going ace.

Then we found a picture of an umbrella, to which L's response was "bugger."

I was in stiches.