Today I am grateful...
- to wake sober, Bunny at my side, the day stretches out before me
- for the new I've Got a Secret. The panel members are gay and the host is the 'straight man'. Last night was so funny, we felt like the panel extended into Randall's living room. One of the guests last night was Rip Taylor, and it was remarked by Jim, "This is officially the gayest show on television."
- that we took our own cut up lemons to the Hobbit Hole, as they notoriously have only limes, only to have Shannon (our favorite waitress) sit the waters down with lemons attached. She remembered, and searched for a lemon. As a side note, the waiters there are the cutest. Jesus.
- for Hillary's attack on Donald Rumsfield and the war in Iraq
- that as the world gets meaner, and more difficult to live in, the spiritual rebirth I have received due to working a program of recovery continues to bring me peace
- for prayers for Barbara as she leaves for Israel
Do I love you because you're beautiful Or are you beautiful because I love you? --Oscar Hammerstein
Once, a powerful king agreed to help a small, lost boy find his mother. Since the boy described his mother as the most beautiful woman in the world, the king commanded all the beautiful women in the kingdom to come to the castle. From miles around, they came--women with complexions of porcelain and hair of spun gold, with cheeks the color of apricots and eyes as dark as the raven's. But none of them was the boy's mother. When the last of the women had paraded before them, and the king and the boy had begun to despair, they heard a timid knock on the door.
"Come in," the king said wearily. In shuffled an old washer woman, her grey hair tied up in a kerchief, her hands rough and red, her dress coarse and patched.
"Mother!" the boy cried when he saw her, and he leapt from his chair and raced into the woman's arms. The king stared in amazement.
Will I be able to see the real beauty in others today?
5 comments:
I don't care for Donald Rumsfeld any more than Hillary, but ...
mustn't I look for the beauty in him as well, or do I get to pick and choose those in whom I care to find my HP's work?
Just because I work to imporve my spiritual life does not mean I have to sit quietly while war mongers and hate spewers get their way. I have every right to be vocal about what I see happening in our government. The lying and the money grabbing disgust me. It has nothing to do with my spirituality.
Love that quote by Hermann Hesse!
Thank you for your prayers, Scott.
I have turned it all over, and am packing and just getting ready for the trip here. Since fear has diminished as a character defect in my life, there is so much more now that I do that could not have been done before.
Blessings and love,
b
Bunny is blessed to have a sober daddy!
Love the first quote. My husband always says that when I really really do NOT want to hear it. We all know that is when I NEED to hear it.
Be well,
G~
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