Hello Dear Friend. I have been reading your writings in corners and keeping to myself mostly just puttering through the last few months of dissertation and practicum. However the mitvelt is calling. I spent the last 3 days at a school conference where we talked about Existential Psychology and around the meaning makers of our great past. We talked about the ideas of Kierkegaard, Frankl, de Beauvior and many more, I'm sure you know them all. When we landed on a Mary Oliver poem "The Spirit Likes to Dress Up", you were swimming in my mind and my eyes whelmed with tears. I've missed you friend, your essences your Ideas and as Yallom would say, your beautiful mind and ideas have left ripples and I have been riding those ripples. Your post today that group (I'm sure not our specific group but I know the parts are similar) are still those same ripples. I see life differently since that group and I now have words for the what and why although my spirit always knew. Big Love Friend- Nicole J.
Nicole! This is such a joy to read, and to read again, And again...
This is, as you noted, a different space than the one we played in last year and the year before that. But it's just down the street, and while the faces are different, I think you would recognize the Love here. It's the same.
Candidly, this new place wouldn't be here at all if not for you. You are making your own ripples.
It's so encouraging to know that you are swimming with me even when when "the dark hug of time" makes it so hard to see anyone.
Love Fir. He apparently is my alter ego. :-) God has been doing a work in me in this area over the past decade or so. It is a process. I can say I am much more comfortable in my identity as God sees me and not near as worried about what others think. It has been life giving and freeing. Thank you my friend.
How grateful I am that you posted this. Sometimes I need to be reminded that it's not just me.
I how many of us spend our whole lives trying to make ourselves presentable, and never make it out the door to walking the path with the one who delights in our being. Who delights in us. Or maybe it's just me.
This is so beautiful and perfect. Your words and meaning resonate deeply within my spirit. Your openness to whatever comes next in this is life is so obvious, so bold and admirable. Thank you for sharing these such beautiful insights. And they are truly beautiful.
Hello Dear Friend. I have been reading your writings in corners and keeping to myself mostly just puttering through the last few months of dissertation and practicum. However the mitvelt is calling. I spent the last 3 days at a school conference where we talked about Existential Psychology and around the meaning makers of our great past. We talked about the ideas of Kierkegaard, Frankl, de Beauvior and many more, I'm sure you know them all. When we landed on a Mary Oliver poem "The Spirit Likes to Dress Up", you were swimming in my mind and my eyes whelmed with tears. I've missed you friend, your essences your Ideas and as Yallom would say, your beautiful mind and ideas have left ripples and I have been riding those ripples. Your post today that group (I'm sure not our specific group but I know the parts are similar) are still those same ripples. I see life differently since that group and I now have words for the what and why although my spirit always knew. Big Love Friend- Nicole J.
Nicole! This is such a joy to read, and to read again, And again...
This is, as you noted, a different space than the one we played in last year and the year before that. But it's just down the street, and while the faces are different, I think you would recognize the Love here. It's the same.
Candidly, this new place wouldn't be here at all if not for you. You are making your own ripples.
It's so encouraging to know that you are swimming with me even when when "the dark hug of time" makes it so hard to see anyone.
Much Love, Dear Freind.
C
Love Fir. He apparently is my alter ego. :-) God has been doing a work in me in this area over the past decade or so. It is a process. I can say I am much more comfortable in my identity as God sees me and not near as worried about what others think. It has been life giving and freeing. Thank you my friend.
Keith,
How grateful I am that you posted this. Sometimes I need to be reminded that it's not just me.
I how many of us spend our whole lives trying to make ourselves presentable, and never make it out the door to walking the path with the one who delights in our being. Who delights in us. Or maybe it's just me.
C
This is so beautiful and perfect. Your words and meaning resonate deeply within my spirit. Your openness to whatever comes next in this is life is so obvious, so bold and admirable. Thank you for sharing these such beautiful insights. And they are truly beautiful.