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The words of the liturgy felt like a mother rocking me, singing over me, speaking words of blessing again and again. I was relaxing into the church like an overtired child collapsing on her mom.
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
Lael Johnson added 16d ago
- “It seems to me,” the puppeteer Jim Henson (The Muppets, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, etc.) said, “that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” Don’t hide it. Embrace it. Express it. Manifest it through your discipline. Say it out loud
Lael Johnson added 11d ago
For me, most simply, contemplative spirituality is a fidelity to beholding the divine in all things. In the field, on the walk home, sitting under the oak tree that hugs my house. A sacred attention.
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
Lael Johnson added 19d ago
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
“She remembered who she was
and the game changed.”
― Lalah DeliaLael Johnson added 2mo ago
- Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”—C. S. Lewis
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
"Get the important things right."
– N. P. CalderwoodLael Johnson added 1mo ago
Angry people are not always wise.
Jane Austen
Pride and PrejudiceLael Johnson added 1mo ago
“Less prep, more presence”
Lael Johnson added 2mo ago