More Holiness Give Me: "I am not my body"

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

"I am not my body" - don't you love that?

I know my post have been a little churchy occasionally but there is no way I can document my life without sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is part of me. At times it bursts to come out and I must share it.

I just got done watching the following video about my "friend" Stephanie Nielson. Her button is on the side of my blog if you care to check out her. I know it might be crazy that I call her my friend, but she is. I read into her life every day and I love her. She is my sister in Heaven and she means something to me here on earth as does all of God's children. She was in a plane crash a year or more ago. She had 4 young children when it happened. As I read her blog my heart broke for her when her youngest child didn't even know her after she woke up from a coma. He had attached himself to her sister because of the extent of time she was in the coma and how young he was in age when it happened. It has taken time for her to be able to physically "be" the mother again.

Sometimes it might seem draining to read about others pain when it is so hard just to get through your own chaotic life. I like to read about it. I like "feeling" with them and commiserating with them about their woes and my woes and the worlds woes. I like going through this earth life journey with each other. Maybe that is weird but I feel connection.

Sometimes, though, there are things I can NEVER read or hear about. That is generally abuse of children. Today Dr. Phil has mothers who are mean to their kids. Mothers who rant and yell and scream and hurt. I can't even go near watching that. It will make me ill. Sometimes when you are at the store and mothers are being so cranky and mean to there kids and yelling at them I get so upset. It makes me sick. It hurts my soul.

Oh yeah...In case you cared.... my sweetie pie, Bo, told me last night, as I was yelling for kids to help in the kitchen, that I was too loud and that I was always mad. Awesome.

Anyways, this whole long rambling post is really just to BEG you to watch this video. It is beautiful and I loved it so much.

BEAUTIFUL

BEAUTIFUL

BEAUTIFUL

It will be the best 8 minutes of your computer usage all day! I promise.

"My New Life"

2 comments:

Janetlee said...: Susan, thank you. This was such a spiritual experience for me today. I hope we can all remember we are not our body, that motherhood is divine. You are divine and I love you and your strength.; May 5, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Susan said...: Linda said...Wow.; December 13, 2010 at 1:01 PM

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

More Holiness Give Me

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

"I am not my body" - don't you love that?

2 comments:

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