Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands. ~1 Thess. 4:11
Add to the Beauty
What happens matters
Encourage one another
Love you.
Mean it.
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Remembering the purpose of my blog.
It was to encourage.
It was to love.
It was to add to the beauty.
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Add To the Beauty by Sara Groves
We come with beautiful secrets
We come with purposes written on our hearts, written on our souls
We come to every new morning
With possibilities only we can hold, that only we can hold
Redemption comes in strange place, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up inside
It comes in small inspirations
It brings redemption to life and work
To our lives and our work
It comes in loving community
It comes in helping a soul find it's worth
Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up inside
This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful
This is grace, an invitation
Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces
Calling out our best
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up...
We come with beautiful secrets
We come with purposes written on our hearts, written on our souls
We come to every new morning
With possibilities only we can hold, that only we can hold
Redemption comes in strange place, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up inside
It comes in small inspirations
It brings redemption to life and work
To our lives and our work
It comes in loving community
It comes in helping a soul find it's worth
Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up inside
This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful
This is grace, an invitation
Redemption comes in strange places, small spaces
Calling out our best
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up...
The original Quiet Life profile picture.
Wearing my homeschool denim jumper and
our mom's diamond.
Loving our baby girl.
You are loved.
You matter.
Encourage one another,
Donna
Yes, amen to it all xx
ReplyDeleteWe all need encouragement
Thanks
Dear Donna,
ReplyDeleteThis has been my journey this last year. Our nest continues to fill and empty, as seems typical these days, but the empty days bring some interesting challenges for me. I've had to ask myself if maybe the reason I wasn't accomplishing all my dream ideas WASN'T because I had all these kids around. Just maybe it has more to do with me. I have had to face my fears and my self more and decide what the new dreams are. And then live that life. It's been super good for me, very exciting, but really, REALLY challenging.
This song has LONG been one of my favorites, but I have never even seen the words, "We come with beautiful secrets...With possibilities only we can hold, that only we can hold." I have so long viewed myself as part of the collective that I think I lost sight of what it is that I am, what it is that I am called to do. The funny thing is, it is 100% enriching my family relationships rather than being selfish. Oh! I have so much to learn.
THANK YOU for posting this. Means the world to me. LOVE YOU SO!!!!
Always,
Di
Your comment is worthy of the main page of the blog, Di!
DeleteMay I post it? Or would you like to elaborate on your first year with an empty nest for the blog?
Help me. Help you.
hehe
I couldn't help it.
I am happy to have you post it. I can ALWAYS elaborate...it is one of my super powers (-: But it may be a few days before I can. Let me know if you would like me to.
Delete*Smooch*
I'll post it and....you can elaborate also!
DeleteElaborating in NOT one of my super powers.
Brevity is.
Repetition is also.
:o)
This post is beautiful and a good reminder. Di, thanks to you also for acknowledging that good things can be challenging (and challenging things can be good).
ReplyDeleteOh, my dear friend, thank you. That is all. Just thank you. Your words continue to touch my heart. As much today as they did almost 9 years ago.
ReplyDeleteLove you
Mean it
Beautiful post, beautiful song. Di’s comment brought me to tears. I so look forward to her guest post.
ReplyDeleteLove this QL community!
Mary,
DeleteI'd be interested in your adjustment strategies too!
This reminds me of the days when the QLCS was a lifeline for me. My daughter was a newborn [she'll be 14 in December!], we were in Seminary [11 years on now!], and I was considering homeschooling my tribe, which I did for two years with the help of the QLCS. We had get togethers in Madison, in Racine, and in the North Woods.. and Di and Carol walked me through losing my mom -- I don't know how I would have endured that season without them. Bonding over hymns, golden globes, British TV and British Royals, and ultimately wanting nothing more than Adding to the Beauty... you girls have been a mainstay in my life. While I miss the active days of this blog and the comment section so very much [because we choose little social media in our family so I'm not on FB or Insta any longer..], I know that I only need reach out and this tribe will be present. I have often felt that Sara Groves and I grew up together as brides, wives, and then as parents -- and her music has been the soundtrack of my adult life. When I opened for her, we sat around the table with our kids in high chairs and shared mom and ministry life stories -- and now we send those same kids to high school and off into the world, praying that they'll be Beauty Adders too. Thanks, Donna, for creating a place where we could be a family. You're the very best. Love you. Mean it. As ever, we are all Glyman girls. Love, Your Stephie
ReplyDeleteHello from NYC!
ReplyDeleteOur lives shift and transition. In one hand is the gentle offering for release of each fledgling for flight, in the other hand is the gentle opening, revealing and receiving of the once long resting many possibilities held dear and ready for your planting, offering and outward expression. Thinking of you!