tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post8617909790752728399..comments2024-03-20T10:17:53.388+01:00Comments on tales from the birdhut: contemplationSaskiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974723368542754165noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-6963620725066784392013-09-27T18:16:20.193+02:002013-09-27T18:16:20.193+02:00the desire to share what one experiences and has n...the desire to share what one experiences and has no name or word for, that is exactly what I have come to understand is why people continue to call themselves 'a believer' <br />I have come to recognize that as a valid viewpoint; I personally have no need for names or words, or even the urge to understand the perhaps underlying theme of all-there-is; I am HERE, breathing in and out and that is that until I stop....but life around me continues to appear and disappear and that is overwhelmingly beautiful and normal and as it should be.<br />What I am trying to express is that without our (human) understanding all would continue to change and evolve etc, without our naming or putting into words or form, life and death keep on happening, that is the mystery to me, as for the moment I do not have enough information to draw definitive conclusionsSaskiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974723368542754165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-55405541415542529612013-09-27T16:51:58.627+02:002013-09-27T16:51:58.627+02:00i just read and then watched the
video again. i t...i just read and then watched the<br />video again. i think it's interesting that you paired these.<br /><br />because of how i have seen Living<br />to transpire, my own, and then<br />just Living in general, i find that<br />there is such an underlying thread<br />of Intelligence. and i feel that<br />as a well, Supreme Intelligence.<br />i have never really had a need to<br />interpret that into anything, really. i just so clearly see It there, over and over, showing Itself in a million ways. an example of which is you, gazing at the life in your immediate space, wanting to catch and hold it for <br />just moments with your camera, to<br />show us, who watch, from each our<br />own spaces. i think if Churches<br />would talk about that, their<br />ministers, would show these things,<br />it might be better than the bible.<br />grace Forrest~Maestashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15853978388902544613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-54980366469033484902013-09-27T16:25:43.631+02:002013-09-27T16:25:43.631+02:00thx Grace, and may I say you too are a very intere...thx Grace, and may I say you too are a very interesting person yourself; the sound of those trees is like a wordless poem, soothing, comforting, aliveSaskiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974723368542754165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-67320336952412923542013-09-27T14:49:30.275+02:002013-09-27T14:49:30.275+02:00you are a truly INTERESTING person.
and church, w...you are a truly INTERESTING person.<br /><br />and church, well, your video, to<br />me that is Church.<br /><br />grace Forrest~Maestashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15853978388902544613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-79960686620179630912013-09-24T19:19:17.995+02:002013-09-24T19:19:17.995+02:00wow Mo, I don't know what to say, except thank...wow Mo, I don't know what to say, except thank you<br /><br />Julie, we live in Nederland and we speak NederlandsSaskiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974723368542754165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-41526119087788860022013-09-24T03:55:39.455+02:002013-09-24T03:55:39.455+02:00How do the Dutch refer to the country in dutch?How do the Dutch refer to the country in dutch?Julie Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978914181459849382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-5117818685272660402013-09-23T21:31:13.742+02:002013-09-23T21:31:13.742+02:00the stories are a way of making sense of the world...the stories are a way of making sense of the world and we all each tell our stories to each other...<br />to quote Clarissa Pinkola Estes from her Letter to a Young Activist in Troubled Times-<br />"One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires ... causes proper matters to catch fire.<br />To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these -- to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.<br />There will always be times in the midst of "success right around the corner, but as yet still unseen" when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate. The reason is<br />this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours: They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here.<br />In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But ...that is not what great ships are built for."<br />and you shine Saskia<br />NamasteMo Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09004208849028911104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-55158020319733184762013-09-23T21:10:26.383+02:002013-09-23T21:10:26.383+02:00well I'm glad it comes across like that, '...well I'm glad it comes across like that, 'cos when I first started reading the bible I was much less tolerant; the reading and sharing of different points of view has really opened my mind to new ways of thinking and seeing, Julie<br /><br />p.s. we are just as confused as you are when it comes to naming our country in foreign languages, we live in both Holland and the Netherlands and speak Dutch, which is very similar to Flemish, but that is spoken in Belgium, where they also happen to speak French...ah Europe a multi-cultural whatchamacallitSaskiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974723368542754165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-828076098410134012013-09-23T12:22:40.981+02:002013-09-23T12:22:40.981+02:00I really admire your openness to look into what fa...I really admire your openness to look into what faith has that might be useful to a nonbeliever. And thank you for the video, it was great fun to visit Holland (or do we say the netherlands, I never know how to use the terminology?)Julie Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978914181459849382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-70177964572426125872013-09-22T21:05:35.700+02:002013-09-22T21:05:35.700+02:00well I guess Marti, it just means you lean on what...well I guess Marti, it just means you lean on whatever is able to offer you support, no more no lessSaskiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10974723368542754165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7254503312795252536.post-49737272079829027052013-09-22T20:33:08.437+02:002013-09-22T20:33:08.437+02:00Left the Catholic church at the age of 15 and my h...Left the Catholic church at the age of 15 and my husband, raised in a Catholic orphanage is a non Catholic as well. My Spanish parents, I should say my devout mother for my father only attended mass at Christmas and on their anniversary and since he was friends with the local priest, who came to our house once a month for dinner and to drink my father's homemade wine, I thought my father was exempt from attending church services! <br /><br />For me, my cathedral is right outside my door, wherever my door exists, my religion found in the dirt I hold in my hand, the sky, the wind, the trees, the birds, you get the idea. If I'm asked to define myself in religious terms, I speak instead of my spiritual direction, my Wiccan inclination to do no harm and my pantheistic belief that God/Goddess is everywhere in nature. BUT here is the dilemma that I have wrestled with all of my life in times of despair, fear, sorrow, I find myself on my knees reciting the prayers I learned from long ago so what does that say about me...Martihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01305881181604750937noreply@blogger.com