Live a graceful life
Image: Demion
Reverie and gratitude
Welcome rich new life
Dew-drenched and glistening
Quenched by heaven’s bounty
The first day of Spring
Ushers the morning sun
Beaming clean shards of light
Which pierce the coldness
As the crisp cool breeze
Tempered by odd warm moments
Heralds new possibilities
Offering hope
Enlivened, the awakened earth
Reflects the spirit’s longing
And the promise of tomorrow
Sustains us
© Karen Scott 2012
Image: Linh Ngan
Dear Lord,
May I learn my lessons
through joy today.
As I understand that the
experience of joy,
is the experience of You.
Remind me Lord, that lessons
need not be difficult,
and that learning can occur
happily and effortlessly,
With the help of the Holy Spirit.
May I enter into the knowing,
that as I choose joy,
I choose and honour You.
I give thanks for the awareness of You,
in my life today and always.
Thank You,
Amen.
© Karen Scott 2012
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We don’t only expect professional work to be presented to us in the best possible model available, but for it to be presented to us by someone who epitomises, what we consider, a professional image.
Whilst this is great at the level of feeling that the work we’ve paid for has been delivered in the best possible way, it’s not so great when we consider what might be going on for the individual behind the image. Continue reading
Grace is something which, to my mind, seems to be rapidly disappearing from our experience in life.
People seem to be sensing its loss but don’t really seem to know what it is they’re losing.
As a species, we have spent so much time trying to achieve something … anything … everything, that we have apparently lost as a result, moments of grace in our lives.
Maybe grace never leaves.
Maybe it’s always occurring without our knowledge and it’s our responsibility to look for its presence.
But the fact we have to look for it, that we simply don’t feel it, suggests our lives are operating on a frequency that’s not on the wavelength of grace. Continue reading
Image: Jenny Downing
Dear God,
I am afraid of what my future holds.
The unsureness of what the changes
in my life are bringing,
sometimes fills me with doubt and fear.
There are so many things that have become
confused in my mind,
as I have turned my back on my true nature,
and run from You.
Please dear Lord,
let me not fall into the arrogance of thinking,
I am above any experience that has been brought into my life.
Instead, please give me the understanding
of what it is I am meant to learn,
and the faith to know,
all things are exactly as they are meant to be.
Help me to see each child as my teacher,
and to remember that Your love
is present in each one.
Please help me to strengthen my resolve
to walk the path of my heart;
And in doing so,
Meet all of the responsibilities
that belong to me.
Please Lord,
Amen.
© Karen Scott 2002