Faith&Practice

This was so awesome I just had to share! :)

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"Religion is living with God. There is no other kind of religion. Living with a Book, living with or by a Rule, being awfully high-principled are not in themselves religion, although many people think they are and that that is all there is to it. Religion has got a bad name through being identified with an outward orderliness. But an outward orderliness can be death, dullness and masochism. Doing your duty may be admirable stoicism; it isn't religion.

To find religion itself you must look inside people and inside yourself. And there, if you find even the tiniest grain of true love, you may be on the right scent. Millions of people have it and don't know what it is that they have. God is their guest, but they haven't the faintest idea that he is in the house. So you mustn't only look where God is confessed and acknowledged. You must look everywhere, to find the real religion. Nor must you look, in others or in yourself, for great spooky visions and revelations. Such visions and revelations come to many, a great deal oftener than we think; and to those to whom they come they are sun, moon and stars. But in most people who know God, and in all such people most of the time, living with God is not an apparition but a wordless and endless sureness. Like the silence of two friends together. Like the silence of lovers.

God is waiting to live like that in every single person in the world."
- Bernard Canter, 1962


I hope your Holy Day(s) have been filled with love, light and joy! Mine's been just that...! :) + work ;p 'cause that's just the way things are. :) Finding gifts is sooo much easier if department stores are opened! ;p

Days have also been 'spiced up' with little E and my littlest niece A getting chicken pox it just in time for Santa's visit on Saturday (yes! that's right, he comes here on xmas eve! how else would he have the time to go round the world? ;)) and hopefully we've seen the worst of it now (and it's been worse than it was for big brother) and that our 'babies' can welcome the New Year pox free! :) *fingers crossed!*

I'm starting to get a little bit nervous about going back to uni, about 2012 in general actually...! I feel miracles bubbling away over the horison...

Love&Light,

♥

It's no secret that I ♥ Paulo Coelho. ;) The inspirational word the comes through this man are awesome. He echos wisdom from eons ago (very similar to my big crush Kahlil Gibran ♥). Mr. Coelho writes obvious Truths so brilliantly it produces goosebumps, it's an Aha!- and But-Of-Course-moment all in one. :)

With that said I obviously ;) follow his blog, twitter and facebook and this morning I read last night's status update,

Love is joy.
Don't convince yourself that suffering is part of it.

!!! :D :D :D What did I just tell you?! :D Smiiiile of recognition at the notion of an obvious Truth. Beauty.

Love&Light,

scatterbrain!

I've missed (?!?) telling you guys that I'm going back to uni in January! :D *yay!*

At the end of last week, just as we got hit by chicken pox, I logged on to antagning.se (international link) to find out if I'd gotten in or not and, I'm in! :) I'm still going for the whole teacher thing (which I took a break from in the spring) but I've changed my mind a little bit and I'm now going to get my degree in pre-school teaching. :)

I'm not really where I thought I'd be, when I took the break in the spring... I was 'hoping' I'd now (almost a year later) would be divorced, have the house sold and have a place of my own, somewhere to start anew with Life...and...I not. None of the above actually but...soon enough??  :\

Looking forward to next year, a new year, with new/old beginnings,

We've got the pox on our house!

...the chicken kind of pox that is. ;p

On Thursday night I found a suspicious looking spot on MisterMan's back which turned out to be the long awaited, harder-than-you-might-think-to-catch chicken pox. He's been a real trooper taking meds for the pain and high fever he's had and been really good at not scratching, even telling his granny how to gently rub his back for him... :)

My mum's looked after the kids during the weekend while I've been at work and little sis was supposed to come mind them today but last night was rough, the itching is no fun right now + he's sore too so even scratching the itch makes him cry. Feeling quite miserable = no-one but mummy will do, :) so I've stayed home from work today.

We've gotten some stuff today to relieve him of the itching and I think it might be working 'cause he fell asleep just after I put it on. :)

So...will Little E get in just in time for xmas or...? ;) Oh well, it's about time they got it and littlest niece is big enough now too to get it so bring it on! ;p Just a bit of a shame that they miss last week of xmas fun in school/nursery - especially Lucia tomorrow which they have been practising and preparing for this past month.. Big sis has promised to prepare some 'lussemys' at her house so they'll still get to dress up and sing some songs and truly make us all feel that xmas is here.. :) :) :)

school kills creativity - ken robinson

A brilliant and creative video/short lecture. For anyone who's near or around kids, parenting, learning, teaching, trying to understand... :) Make sure you hear (and see!) this! :)

I miss learning teaching, teaching learning,

Posting via Ray

OK, so here's me trying to post from my mobile phone! Will it work?! :) Bus ride home sure goes faster with this thing to play with!

I'll try posting a pic too. :)

Excited,

Making new acquaintances...

So... my 'old' (imo nothing from -09 should/could be classed as old!) fancy phone is...gone. It's been unwell for a looong time now but I've been holding on, learn new tricks to keep using it, keeping it alive. But today, finally, I decided enough was enough...I'd been holding on for too long, it was time to let go and face my fears about these clever smartphones or freaky hybrid phoneputerstereo thingies! ;p They're little cyborgs who'll end up taking over the world! ;p :D

Before work I headed into scary mobile phone store, openly admitting to not knowing anything about these clever smartphones. I could have been conned into buying anything but wasn't. :) After much needed help I got a new phone(y?) to take home.

So, here begins the story of me and 'Ray'... We're just getting to know each other but in him lingers my dreams of facebook check-ins, funny tweets and possibly even in-action blog posts! ;) He's managed to tick me off some by loosing a good third of my contact list, which my house troll thinks he might be able to recover from old phones memory (?!). :) Ray's got a fab camera and lots of funny/scary/intriguing apps sooo I might be able to forgive him the mishap with my contact list...

Here he is, my Sony Ericsson Ray. Ain't he purdy?! ;)