This I Believe: A World of Vibrant Colors
Thursday June 19, 2008
Categories: Inspiration and Prayer, Mental Health
NPR features a collection of inspiring essays in a series called "This I Believe." On the plane ride to my college alma mater, Saint Mary's College (across from Notre Dame), for my 15-year reunion, I read through some of the...
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Therese,
Thank you for sharing that lovely essay. I am humbled to witness how God's grace and love can alchemize even the dark, confusing miasma of depression into something worthwhile.
Very nice. :)
Waving to you from a place with an awful lot of red, yellow and orange in it ...
It's awfully warm, too ;-P
You know, this is really why a lot of people dislike organized religion (the panacea/warm blanket factor). It is the opiate of the masses.
Don't feel bad theresa, my biomedical ethics teacher wrote the same thing on my paper: He (being one of my fav teachers and so loving) he said: not every one believes the same way you do. Try to find a way to argue your topic in a way that everyone can relate to and understand-Case in point-his friend Dr. K wrote the 10 non religious reasons why assisted Suicide is Wrong for religion and medicine class I was like you in that respect, all guns and no glory/mercy when it comes to passion things sometimes--I can be very loving but i think we don't want other to be hurt so we rant and rave about stuff in order to help them avoid the pain but that is not always what happens.
oh yeah, when you hear hoof prints think horses not zebras...
therese so true if more people would reach out and see the world in all of the colors god made there would be more peace and understanding to this journey called life.
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I too believe 'n all that u v mentioned.Thank God, for showing up a person of my personality-traits.And nice to meet u.
Your writing piece on color really connected with me. Funny, I guess it's human nature to run and hide in the safety of black and white but if we open up to the colors and comprehensiveness of life we will be better able to manage life. I read your blog from time to time and I respect your honesty. Openness takes courage but it is the only way to intiate movement in the fight against the devastating impact of behavioral brain diseases. Careful, clear articulation of the experience is paramount. In a search for understanding, I found it curious that my focus would turn to color. As a result of a five year journey of questioning I now view life through color. I utilize a simple visual that encompasses life and death. It has a very stabilizing force and helps me balance my life. In part, this visual came out of a reaction to a very traumatic event. I would like to share it with you and your readers in the hopes that it would be yet another tool that may be helpful. Theresa if you are open to it, please let me know. May you embrace the full circle of a rainbow. Bask in the warmth of the light and the brillance of the colors.
this might just have to replace the recitation of the postolic creed at my funeral!(Far from the present, hopefully. Once again, T, you rock my world!
Tx! I think I better understand why the zebra design is now so much in design vogue; but now it comes in colors, transforming itself into hope/change. ~jr
I've told you this one already, but it still rings true
'What about your supplies, Frederick?' they ask.....
'Close your eyes'
'now i send you the rays of the sun.....do you feel their golden glow?'
as Frederick speaks of the sun the little mice begin to feel warmer......
was it Fredericks voice, was it magic?
then he tells them of the blue periwinkles, and the red poppies in the yellow wheat, and the green leaves of the berry bush...and they all saw the colours as clearly as if they had been painted in their minds.
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