Ozark Oddments: Getting by with a little help from my friends...

Monday, June 14, 2010

Getting by with a little help from my friends...

We have received many e-mails and phone calls from friends and family offering encouraging words, helpful advice, and offers of help.

On top of that, it has been the incredible blessing to read the comments people have left in recent posts. Women I do not know in real life—and most likely will never meet but whose lives I have glimpsed through their blogs—feel like dear friends.

Those who have read this blog for a while will know that I like spiders, so the metaphor of all these prayers and thoughts weaving a web of spiritual support around our little family is appropriate.

It is a very comforting feeling to be “stuck” in this web!

We are not alone!

4 comments:

The Weaver of Grass said...: That is exactly how I feel about all my friends in blogland. Wonderful support. Best wishes.; 11:49 AM
Oklahoma Granny said...: Beautiful metaphor and oh, so true.

Blessings to you today.; 12:18 PM
Far Side of Fifty said...: I hope you are doing better this week, one day at a time! :); 2:55 PM
Leilani Schuck Weatherington said...: Yes... one day at a time is vital. If I think too much about what is looming in the future it overwhelms. Just focus on today!!!; 7:23 AM

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Thoughts to ponder

Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
Smith

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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"