More Holiness Give Me: I fall a lot. As in... a lot.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

I fall a lot. As in... a lot.

I have a slipping, tripping, falling problem. I just do. I have long since excepted it, and there is likely no changing it.

The family all know it is an issue with me. I have finally trained them all that it is rude to laugh. They usually stifle it now long enough to find out if I am okay, and then they laugh. Which is still rude.

Corey usually yells at me when I fall. He does that though. It is weird. When someone gets hurt in the family, or falls, Corey yells their name. He isn't really trying to be mean. It is just his first reaction.

Lately my boys are the sweetest things in the world.

Over the period of one night which included a very strangely rainy, slushy day, and one freezing night, our whole city has become a sheet of glossy, beautiful..... ice. Ice spread across whole parking lots in areas. Very dangerous for people of the falling nature. Such as.....me.

So my sweetie boys have been right on the ball escorting me into the church, into the car, into the house, where ever I need to go, one of those little guys is trying to hold me up or offering me their elbow. They have been taking great pride in their "job". It is heaven to me since raising kind men is one of my ultimate goals.

I was very sad today when I went in town without my gentlemanly suitors. I was leaving my destination and.....wham. I fell. On ice so glossy I didn't even notice it.

No one was there to hold me up, yell at me, or even stifle a laugh. It was a lonely, pitiful little fall.

It made me all the more thankful for sons who care to hold their mom up. Falling or no falling, I am blessed.

2 comments:

Pirate Princess said...: Oh man - I walked to church Sunday and fell FOUR times! I also fell in the parking lot, but Nana was there to giggle. I have never fallen so many times in so short a span... getting rather sick of it! Next time, we should fall together. haha!!; December 22, 2010 at 12:43 AM
Susan said...: Mary McDowell... I hope you never,ever fall again...smile emoticon
Heather Densley... I too have that same problem smile emoticon I'm sorry your little guys weren't there to save you, they sound so cute to me! What a good Mom you are! I fell the other day shoveling the driveway right behind my Mom and she didn't even notice until I slid by her ...
Nancy Chamberlain... Rhett was such a gentleman yesterday! Holding the door for me and helping grandpa escort me in to the restaurant. Nathan was helping Katie. No one had to even ask them to help! Keep up the good work. Glad you weren't hurt!; March 13, 2016 at 12:47 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, December 21, 2010

I fall a lot. As in... a lot.

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