You may have awakened this morning to the buzzing of an alarm clock, the sounds of the radio, a dull internal nudge.
You may have felt dread for today’s might be’s, regret over yesterday’s failings. You may have worried that you couldn’t live up to their expectations or your own. You may have lay there, thinking, I can’t believe I have to do this again and How on earth am I going to do that?
You may worry your portion is not enough, your little light far too dim.
Today, may you have eyes to see
undone not as failure,
emptiness not as lack,
dependence not as inability,
broken not as wrong,
weakness not as worthlessness
in yourself and in Love that is ours. And hers. And his.
This is Day 30 of Right Here. Throughout October, I’m joining with a community of bloggers (linking up with The Nester) — all of whom are writing each day of the month about a topic of their choosing. To find all posts in 31 Days of Right Here, click here, or see the listing below.
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POSTS IN THE SERIES
An introduction: Welcome to 31 Days of Right Here
Day 1: For You, Too
Day 2: Fear’s Invitation
Day 3: My Portion
Day 4: Five Minute Friday: Write
Day 5: Rise and Shine
Day 6: My Joys Mount As Do the Birds
Day 7: A Mother’s Fierce Love
Day 8: When Life’s A Mad Rush – How To Slow Time
Day 9: The Fight For Right Here Told Through Two Tales of Epic Whining (Part I)
Day 10: The Fight For Right Here Told Through Two Tales of Epic Whining (Part II)
Day 11: Five Minute Friday: Ordinary
Day 12: When Right Here’s A Mess
Day 13: O God, We Thank You
Day 14: The Date That Almost Wasn’t
Day 15: One Thing That Makes Us Human
Day 16: That We Might See And Remember
Day 17: In Which I Hit A Wall
Day 18: Five Minute Friday: Laundry
Day 19: When You Can’t Hold All The Moments
Day 20: Let Me Walk In Beauty
Day 21: Tend This Seed
Day 22: Just One More Click Away
Day 23: A Reset
Day 24: What We Hold
Day 25: Five Minute Friday: Together
Day 26: The Middle School Dance
Day 27: A Prayer For Hands, Mind And Heart
Day 28: On Cupped Hands And Giving From Right Here
Day 29: What You Might Say When There’s Nothing New To Say
Day 30: What We Feel, How We See
Connecting through the power of stories written, spoken and lived
Love this friend! the poetry of:
” undone not as failure,
emptiness not as lack,
dependence not as inability,
broken not as wrong,
weakness not as worthlessness. . . ”
beautiful words. . .beautiful you.
-Cornelia
Thank you for the ways you’ve encouraged me to embrace the voice I’ve been given. I appreciate you, Cornelia — great celebrator of writers that you are.
those words soaked into my heart this morning, what a perfect morning for me to hear that, as i turn another year and the temptation to evaluate all that i am not is knocking hard at the door of my heart….so once again, thank you for reminding truth, and for sharpening the focus of reality to God’s lens, that He see’s us as He created us, His beautiful precious children, not as the World reflects back to us.
may you receive your own true words today friend!
love
Beyond grateful that you were born those years ago, dear friend. You are continually bringing light, love and hope into this life of mine. And the ways you get how I need my own words…that is gift, too. I love you.
Right back atcha, Ashley! So often what we find easier to pray for for other’s, we find diffucult to ask for for ourselves. May you find fullfillment today.
So true, Uncle Don. So true. Thank you for blessing me.
May you receive, in full measure, what you have given. May you know, in depth of heart and soul, what you have taught. May Love hold you in ample arms and whisper in your ear how precious, how precious you are.
Bless you, and thank you, Ma. I receive.
Dear Ashley
What a great message! I needed to hear today deep within that disabled doesn’t mean unwanted and our Pappa used your post to tell me just that what I so needed. Thank you.
Blessings XX
Mia
I am grateful God spoke “loved” and “wanted” to your heart, dear friend. May you continue to rest in that today.
Dearest Tiggie, all our imperfections, doubts and regrets are fragile segments of the corners of our lives. We constantly repair just as the ant forever vigil, mends the breaches of its existence. So do not worry, use your articulate thoughts and spirit to keep mending and improving. I love you very much! You PaPa
Imperfections, doubts and regrets make up the fabric of us, don’t they, Papa? What we’d get rid of in a second if we could is so often what helps give us depth of understanding, compassion, determination and love. Without those frailties, we would miss out on so much of who we are and the Strength that is ours in weakness. I love you.
I love this so much and know it comes straight from the very heart of God through you right here to me! Love you Dear and I’m so proud of your huge efforts and accomplishment this month! Wow! Well Done! And thank you for blessing each and every one of us that has followed along. I’m so glad I took the time to read them all!
Thank you for reading them ALL, Kelly. Now that is a feat. :-) Grateful you received God’s love here today. You are a blessing.