HEART'S CRY

The most important learning takes place in the hundreds of small interactions throughout our days.  These repeated experiences form our procedural memory.  The Circle of Security Parent program founders call this, "The unthought known." We can know something, before we think something.  If we don't reflect, think and renew...we do what we don't want to do and don't do what we want to do.  We have to get to the bottom of it!  To dig into the known about ourselves.  To put into language our own Heart's Cry. Some great steps: 1.  Time and space for reflection. 2.  Write.  Write.  Write. 3.  Listen.  Pray and ask God to reveal all the cries of our heart. 4.  Write. Write.  Write.   Writing our reflections puts language to the experiences in our life.   Bringing the unthought known into the land of the known.   Then we see where we are and where we need t...

Martin Luther King Jr. was respected each year in my growing up.  My Mom had great respect for him.  What he stood for, how he accomplished it and the generation he inspired.  I thought of him yesterday.  Along with his family.  For me he isn't just an idea, but rather a man.       A man who believed something deep within his heart and never stopped the fire within him.     Misquoted and used out of perspective and context.  He listened and he respected and he loved equally.  Both Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr.'s names were changed in honor of the reformer Martin Luther.  Martin Luther Kind Jr.'s main influence was Jesus of the Bible.  The Bible contains, "many profound truths which one cannot escape," he says.  He focused on loving one's neighbor, loving God, praying, loving enemies and turning the other cheek. I wonder if he doubted?  Dismayed?  Discouraged?  Exhauste...

I'm a "why" girl.  It is annoying, even to myself at times. This morning as I tried to be still and Praise God, the question "Why?" came up.  Good thing God is patient with me!   I've had these question asked of me.  "Does God have an ego trip problem, where he needs us to tell him how great he is?"  "Is praise and worship about power and control?  You know, if I praise enough, then God will like me?"   "Is Praise like rubbing the lamp and the genie pops out to grant me three wishes?  Priming the pump, so to speak?" "Is praising God simply for discipline or show?  Along with beating one's back or walking on coals?" Why is Praise so important to God and to His people?  Why does He say, "I will inhabit the praises of His people?"   Do you ever doubt or feel afraid or alone?  Have you ever lost your way or are you completely on empty spiritually, mentally, physically etc.?   Do...

Over the river and through the woods to my college degrees I go.   Better yet, "Over the hills and through the grasses and on my journey goes.  My God knows the way to direct my sway down the straight and narrow road." I love knowledge and chase after wisdom and understanding.  I want to know those around me.  As a young girl growing up on the plains, I felt at home walking through the tall grasses on the prairie top.   Walking eyes closed, hands open and arms outstretched to caress the feathery tops of the grasses.  Listening to the whispers, rubbing and noises of the wind through them.  Feeling the sun as it relaxed muscles and I soaked in the peace.  I felt God so near. My mind opened and wondered and was curious.   Loving the seasons and the movement of nature with time.   The animals and humans keeping beat beside them.  Learning the way through the moment.   Read...

I took a walk with a three year old young man today.   His mama was frazzled and he was bored.  "Grab your shoes," I told him.  He ran to his Mom to get his shoes on and ran to the door.  After fixing the shoestrings and the coat was on the way he wanted and I showed him the edge of the sidewalk and where we would walk...we were off. A dried piece of weed draped across an edge of the sidewalk, and I bent down to check it out.  He followed my lead and bent in half beside me.  I broke a piece off and gave him half and continued on our way.  Have you ever took a walk with a toddler?  And looked at things the way they do?  The broken sticks in the gutter, the ice and the small patch of snowing clinging to life are all gold to these little explorers.   A little encouragement is all they need to sift for treasure along the way. A smooth stone sat contentedly on the driveway of a house.  I stopped to admire...

I spent time with some beautiful professional Mothers yesterday.  Women who are passionate about their families, their jobs and their callings.   My heart breaks looking into their eyes.   They want to do everything they do, with the best of their ability and with all of their hearts.  And, they are tired.  Physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually tired. A mothers' heart is broken with love, when their children are born and carry a burden for them their entire lives.   We want everything for them.  We want to be financially stable, prayerful always, responsive, attentive at all times,  studious, intelligent, wise, compassionate, teaching, capable, leaders, passionate and making a difference in our worlds. We can't have it all nor can we do it all...all at the same time.  God has created all things to be beautiful in its time.   Beautiful little girls.  Beautiful young ladies....

We are in a famine.  We've been in a long drought.   "Every child is in relationship poverty," according to Dr. Bruce Perry. I believe we in America are in a relationship drought.  It has been a very long drought.  A drought producing a dangerous famine. As rain nurtures the soil.  Taking moisture to the roots of all things growing.  Softening and breaking up the hardened soil.  Resurrecting millions of colonies of organisms at work beneath our feet.  Even the natural composting process, needs moisture to be productive.  It's just how it is. Without rain, nothing grows and eventually dies.   Without relationship, we won't grow.  We die. Babies die from not being loved.  Not having the needed relationships, stunts children's ability to grow, love and learn.  It is simply how we are made.   We are hardwired for relationship.  Science proves it.  The Bible is based on it....