http://youtu.be/BlCRQchy158
13 more years darlin' . . .
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Lets Ride!
We went to the Abilities Expo yesterday and had a great time as usual. They had quite a selection of adaptable vehicles including one of these:
Daddy? Pweese?
13 more years darlin' . . .
13 more years darlin' . . .
Friday, March 30, 2012
Quote of the Day
"I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that"
- Ellen DeGeneres
Grounded
by Joyce Sutphen
My father will not
climb into the trees
today.
He is eighty-four
and tells me
that he was never
fond of heights,
that he hated
putting up the pipes
to fill the silo,
that he did not enjoy
climbing to the top
of the barn
to fix the pulley
on the hay-sling.
I have no desire
to be in the air,
he says.
And I always thought
he loved walking
the rim of the silo,
waving his hat
in circles overhead,
shouting down to
where we stood
grounded and gazing
up at him.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The Thorn
by Martha Snell Nicholson
I stood a mendicant of God before His royal throne
And begged him for one priceless gift, which I could call my own.
I took the gift from out His hand, but as I would depart
I cried, “But Lord this is a thorn and it has pierced my heart.
This is a strange, a hurtful gift, which Thou hast given me.”
He said, “My child, I give good gifts and gave My best to thee.”
I took it home and though at first the cruel thorn hurt sore,
As long years passed I learned at last to love it more and more.
I learned He never gives a thorn without this added grace,
He takes the thorn to pin aside the veil which hides His face.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Disabilities Prove God Still Has Hope for Us
We recently had a meeting with Annie's teachers to evaluate her progress and make course corrections as needed. I love teachers in general and God bless them for the work that they do but I can't expect them to be as passionate about my daughter as I am.
Annie has some significant learning delays and it will take significant effort on our part, as parents, on their part as teachers and especially on Annie's part. That means extra effort, extra patience, extra thought. It means extra hard.
But I BELIEVE in Annie.
I believe she can catch up. I believe Annabelle is gifted beyond what her teachers see, what her mother and I believe and what Annie herself can presently conceive. And so I choose the hard road. The push. The effort. The challenge. I want to push Annie to her greatest potential. This will not always be fun or easy but it will be what is best. I BELIEVE in my Annie.
That got me thinking. Maybe God has not given up on us quite yet either.
God BELIEVES in us. He believes that we are gifted beyond what we ourselves can imagine. He believes that we can become MORE compassionate and LESS judgmental. Our father believes that we have great storehouses of understanding and humility that we have not yet discovered. God believes that we have within us the ability to make a better society - one in which ALL are cherished as the immortals which we are.
And so God chooses the hard road. The push. The effort. The challenge. He wants to push us to our greatest potential. This will not always be fun or easy but it will be what is best, for God BELIEVES in us.
So he makes us the gift of disability and calls all of us, those with disabilities and those without, to step up and show what he has made us of. He calls us to be better beings and there are few places in which that call is louder than the community of those with disabilities.
God makes us the gift of disability because he BELIEVES in us even when we don't believe in ourselves.
God makes us the gift of disability because he still has hope for us.
http://youtu.be/sdA3Equ1I3s
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
How Many Times Does Our Culture Have to Relearn This Lesson?
That a person's appearance is no indicator of their talent, ability or worth . . . .
Garden Fairy
I know I haven't been posting many photos lately. I have a good excuse - our camera broke (the new one arrives today!) A couple of weeks ago Annie went to a birthday party and the theme was "Garden Fairies" complete with a May Pole.
It was a blustery day which combined two of Annie's favorite things: Wind and ribbons! She had a blast!
Monday, March 26, 2012
Quote of the Day
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Anonymous
Quote of the Day
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast
- CS Lewis
Quote of the Day
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Quote of the Day
"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities."
- Charles De Gaulle
Friday, March 23, 2012
Quote of the Day
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
— Plato
— Plato
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Quote of the Day
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." -
Unknown
Unknown
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Quote of the Day
"Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb
-Swedish Proverb
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
"Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed."
- Brian Tracy
- Brian Tracy
Happy Saint Paddy's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y07at1bU89Q&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zff9hVH3ptY&feature=player_embedded
Friday, March 16, 2012
Quote of the Day
"A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding."
- Marshall McLuhan
- Marshall McLuhan
Prayer
by Marie Howe
Every day I want to speak with you. And every day something more important
calls for my attention—the drugstore, the beauty products, the luggage
I need to buy for the trip.
Even now I can hardly sit here
among the falling piles of paper and clothing, the garbage trucks outside
already screeching and banging.
The mystics say you are as close as my own breath.
Why do I flee from you?
My days and nights pour through me like complaints
and become a story I forgot to tell.
Help me. Even as I write these words I am planning
to rise from the chair as soon as I finish this sentence.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Quote of the Day
"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui."
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Quote of the Day
"Don't wish me happiness -- I don't expect to be happy. It's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor -- I will need them all."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
In a Parlor Containing a Table
by Galway Kinnell
In a parlor containing a table
And three chairs, three men confided
Their inmost thoughts to one another.
I, said the first, am miserable.
I am miserable, the second said.
I think that for me the right word
Is miserable, said the third.
Well, they said, it's quarter to two.
Good night. Cheer up. Sleep well.
You too. You too. You too.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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