Hey....

Since everyone else is on the blogging wagon, I might as well jump on too. It's been so long and sporadic I know. I do enjoy reading everyone elses blog, so this has inspired me to jot some things down.

I think I've used this pic before.....I "jacked" it from my sis's photo album, but it's one of my fav's (plus my pic selection is limited @ the moment). Reminds me of the night we took the pontoon out and didn't make it back til morning light. And this is where we found ourselves docked.

This bit was written by a chimook claiming to be a shinaab, and he/she never put their real name so I won't put the credit at the end because I really don't know who wrote it. But I've always kept this in my files for reading, I like the words and meaning.

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“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

I need to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you’re telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life from God’s presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”.

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”

-Author unknown
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