Above most other things, that is what I want my home to be. A sanctuary. A place for people to be accepted completely, loved unconditionally, and welcomed with joy. A place of rest. This does not always happen. I have lived with people whom I was not willing to accept, love or welcome. I [...]
Archive for the ‘Thankfulness’ Category
From The Palace – Sanctuary
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 25 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Small Moments – Fitting in the Knitting
Posted in Knitting, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Jean Greenhowe, Knit Toys, Knitting, Rainbow Babies on 10 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Our lectures rarely start on time. Choir rarely starts on time. I find myself with many small moments – too small for homeworking, but definitely large enough for little knitting. It is good to do something with less potential for exposure to infectious disease. Plus, you never know when you will need a sharp stick [...]
Small Moments – Walking Home
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 6 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Small, tired voice on the telephone. One word answers, but not sullen. So sleepy. Bedtime soon, after reading.
Thumping feet in the hallway. I can hear them even from this far away. A second sleepy voice, “Watcha’ doin’ tonight?“ Her standard greeting.
“I was singing. Lots and lots of singing.”
“What kind of singing?”
Breathe in, from close to [...]
A Good and Joyful Thing
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness on 5 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A year ago, I wrote about having the chance to ask for forgiveness. And about that forgiveness being given readily. I don’t think I wrote about taking communion the next day. About standing in the front of the church and truly feeling, for the first time in many, many years that I had “come with [...]
Small Moments, Big Question
Posted in Clinicals, Growing, Overheard, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Clinicals, Community, Small Moments on 12 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planning road trips. Wondering what to wear, what book to read aloud in the car. Imagining listening to the radio on scan and laughing at small things glimpsed through small windows.
Reading instrument manuals and package inserts, trying to learn principles. After the tenth word is written in the margin with a question mark behind it, [...]
Small Moments: From the Floors
Posted in Clinicals, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Small Moments, Thankfulness on 24 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A nearly casual question about a book in the windowsill led to a heartbreaking story of love and loss. The storyteller thanked us for listening, but really it was the two of us who should have done the thanking.
Stopping in the hallway between two rooms, preparing supplies. Between the monitor beeps and the call bells, [...]
Saturday Morning at the Palace
Posted in Small Moments, Thankfulness on 11 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It does seem like a palace. To live in a room three times the size of my room back home. To have a closet. A dining room. Porches galore.
The morning light wakes me early, the best sort of alarm clock. I wonder what waking here will be like in the winter. When people hear I’ve [...]
Out of Quarantine
Posted in Clinicals, Thankfulness on 8 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Newsflash everyone: I do not have tuberculosis.
Words of Wisdom – Forward
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Small Moments on 21 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Three days until the move. I am essentially packed. Well, if you count having everything stacked in the front hallway as packed, then I’m ready to go.
I am leaving so many things behind. In lab the other day I was feeling sad over this when a classmate laughed, “You know what you [...]
A Love That Will Not Let Me Go
Posted in Growing, Small Moments, Thankfulness, tagged Church, Love, Prayer, Thankfulness on 1 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been playing for Lenten services this year. Quiet, simple services. Two hymns, no extra service music. Just time to center and listen.
Last year at this time, school was so hard. There was no time for anything else. I substituted for a midweek service even though I had so much homework and really didn’t [...]
