The River View Journey

Someone I follow on Facebook recently posted a picture of her daily journal. The picture included a prayer which said: "Forgive me for expecting so much of myself and so little of you."  When I read that, I felt like she had spoken words naming an ache in my heart.  Constantly,  my prayers include asking for strength to endure, to keep moving. The prayer shared by this writer revealed to me how selfish my prayer focus is.  My prayers aren't only centered on the Covid-19 pandemic. My prayers are deeply personal, identity related. They are focus on relationships. My prayers focus on parenting. It seems that in many ways this is how my prayer life has been for a long while. As I sit at River View Center today, I realize that the work isn't only in me. The work truthfully isn't even accomplished by me. Work is being accomplished out of my view. This work in and through the lives of others is being accomplished by I Am, by Love.  To put this visually...in the river i...

I have been increasingly aware that it has been quite sometime since I have written a blog. Nothing specific caused my silence. Rather it's been several life tasks. Mostly I have been busy with life. We have been working on projects around our house, inside and out. I have been focusing on being a mom. And, I have been trying to cherish my solitude.  I follow several travel photographers from Scotland on Facebook. This week 2 images from the city of Edinburgh struck me. Scotland is just beginning to open up from lock down. There, like here, it was focused on slowing the spread of Covid-19. The first photo was of a mostly vacant Royal Mile in the heart of the city. The second was at the Edinburgh Castle. It showed circles spaced 6 feet apart with people in them to watch the firing of the canon. Having traveled to Edinburgh at this time of year seeing the emptiness and the people spread out was very jarring. This time of year is usually Fringe Festival and the Military Tatoo. The str...