Sangria time!
{Originally published on theRunaMuck.)
I seriously feel like I just had my lights knocked out, and I’ve woken seeing red and dusting off my rear end.
It’s sangria time, people. Are you raising your cups?
My husband and I can’t stop saying: we only have this one life.
I’ll say it again - we only have this ONE and it’s riding like a breath on the wind, already in disintegration. So what are we doing here?
If God doesn’t shine through this spot of air He’s given me, may my computer fly to the moon, let the world wide web scramble to a fuzz, and may we meet outside weeping at each other’s necks for what we’ve been missing.
Luke 12:48 (The Message)
47-48“The servant who knows what his master wants and ignores it, or insolently does whatever he pleases, will be thoroughly thrashed. But if he does a poor job through ignorance, he’ll get off with a slap on the hand. Great gifts mean great responsibilities; greater gifts, greater responsibilities!
I have been given much. That is my confession today.
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Orphans and widows, God’s heart is for you, and so should ours be. Here’s to riding this breeze with His breath in our wings, the intentions of His heart moving our feet.
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On Saturday night, we visited World Garden, where the owner shared his vision for business with us. We cried together. Photographs of gorgeous children line the walls. Every meal you purchase there feeds a hungry child or supports a far-away and needy farmer.
Keep your glasses lifted here!
He blessed us, the owner and his vision for service, for selflessness. We decided then to adopt and it settled into me that God’s hands could be weaving her even now. Even now, I think of her mother, and she could be thinking of me. We ate the food, no doubt laced with love more than with the nutrition that whole foods supply, and it was whole food - beautiful and cared-for piles of it, as we have here in America, in abundance. Every bite was a rich, delicious reminder of our great responsibility and of a great inherited Love.
SO let it be that way with us! Let us enjoy this abundance, this ONE life and eat the food that multiplies to the poor. Let us do what gives us pure JOY, what serves the most High God, where he dwells in low-down places, near the broken. There is too much to gain to not eat that way, to not love because He first loved us.
Here’s to World Garden!
Cheers!
Editor’s pick by Robin at PENSIEVE. Initially, I only knew Amber as the “Mother” of The Mother Letter Project, by helping her husband promote that Christmas-gift-of-a-blog last year. We exchanged emails, met at BlissDom ‘09, and a kindred friendship was born. Amber’s prose is lyrical and her voice will draw you in. She lives and loves with passion and isn’t afraid to let you see her from the inside out. She’s not just an above average writer, her posts will stun you. Everytime. She’s beautiful on the outside, beautiful on the inside–you’ve just gotta subscribe to her feed and follow her on Twitter! Be sure to check out the comment thread on her original post, too!
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Robin Pensieve
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July 1st, 2009
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Author - Amber Haines, Channel- Religion & Philosophy, Editor- Robin at Pensieve, Faith, Featured 2, Food and Drink, Inspiration, Introspection, Self-Awareness, Jesus, Philosophy, Scripture, Wednesday 2, adoption
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we only have this one life…
we only have this one life…
we only have this one life…
Y e a h…What are we….what am I…gonna do with it?
L’chaim!!
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