What I did on my summer vacation!

As a former teacher, I have always loved this time of year! That first day of school was always great, merely because of all the newness!  The promise of progress in the air!

I thought of that vintage question: "What did you do on your summer vacation?" I know that I did not write on this blog hardly at all these past few months, but that did not mean that I did not have plenty of opportunities to grow and reflect.  I guess I  have gotten into the habit of writing "Blurts" on my ipad, serving as more of a personal journal .I use the title "Blurts" because as those who know me can attest, I "Blurt!" I have a brain that works on the  "lottery ball principle". Lots of random thoughts popping together, and then, one Pops Up!! Those people around me who are subjected to these blurts, often wonder what in the world I am thinking. I realize now that I need to sanitize my Blurts somewhat for those around me. But not for God. Blurts usually carry truths with them. Not necessarily God's truths, but undeniably,  my truths. Gut reactions. Gut reactions are truths in themselves. I smile when I read them, realizing that I dearly want to immediately sanitize them before I present them to the world. Lots less judgement!  So, I have gotten into the habit of writing these Blurts quickly, and letting God sanitize them!


Blurt #70513 , came from reading Fr. Richard Rohr's book "Falling Upwards":


"Basically the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half of life is writing the commentary on that text."

"Such introversion is necessary to unpack all that life has given us and taken from us. We engage in what is now a necessary and somewhat natural contemplation."

"Life has stimulated us enough, and now we have to process it and integrate it, however unconsciously."

"Silence is the only language spacious enough to include everything and to keep us from slipping back into dualistic judgements  and divisive words."

'Like Jesus, you may  soon feel as if you have 'nowhere to lay your head', while a whole set of new heads are now making sense to you! "

"Kind of  double belonging is characteristic of people at this stage. No one group meets all their needs, desires and visions."

"One cannot live in the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie."    Carl Jung


"The genius of the Gospel was that it included the problem inside the solution. The falling became the rising. The raft became the shore."

Sorry, I won't let you see what the Blurt was that accompanied the writings of these Rohr quotes. When God allows me to understand that Blurt, I will share! May the  future writings I share, allow  the formation of your own BLURTS ! TADA!