Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Stuff Happens

“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so,
right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.”
~Natalie Goldberg~
I like this quote...so true.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes it is!! I love it:)

Anonymous said...

I really love this quote. I was trying to comment on your acceptance post from your xanga page, but it just brings me over to this site...so here I am.
Acceptance. I agree with what you were saying. I do think that we can "lean into" our pain and be changed through it. It's just so difficult because we are programmed to avoid all things unpleasant or painful...at least I am.

Ruthie said...

Sorry about the redirect, Riss. I'm not sure why it does that...not sure if anyone else has had that trouble with my xanga...weird. Thanks for your comments, though!
I think I've learned a lot in the past year about finding the joy of growth in my own difficult circumstance. However, as I questioned on xanga, I don't know how I would do in some other situation. I would like to hope that I would be able to accept with grace and "lean into" it as you said.

God bless!