Having a grandchild with severe disabilities, and now a husband with cancer has given me great pause in the word healing. Many use it without thinking what the word for the situation may really mean. There are a few that over time and study truly understand. A cousin prayed a prayer over my husband that showed he truly understood. In the ending of his prayer he said, “if his healing does not come in this life, then when the time of his PERFECT healing comes, then give him and his family peace in knowing he is at home with You.”
I've been working on healing from some fractured friendships for a long time now and this line really hugged my little broken heart: "Healing is (to riff off the late great Eugene Peterson) a long rest in the right direction." This piece (much like so many of yours) was balm. Which is to say: you are part of another's "long rest in the right direction."
On a completely other note: As of late, I have been working out of a nearby public library a couple of days a week. I have taken to checking out books much more regularly. Recently I read a book that won the Pulitzer Prize. Your words rivaled hers in both your abilities to leave me stunned by beauty.
Thank you, thank you, Laura. “To prove what prophets foretold, to break in the Kingdom among us, to reveal signs of the Spirit indwelling, to urge our limping souls to remember how God’s world shines.”
Laura, I am moved to tears by your words/work in the world in general.
You know as well as anyone since you have written and reflected much on calling, that it may not be my calling to do the same work as you, but it is my prayer that the work I do, while very different, still somehow leave the people that encounter it saying “God bless Emily” in any sort of comparable way to how I am saying, “God bless Laura and her presence in this world” this morning. Our Holy Labors. Even if my labor is Sales Operations aka lots of pointed email writing, chasing lists of disparate tasks and just generally making bad things go away.
My wife is currently fighting cancer. I have muddled through the same questions and emotions, even though I’m not the one in need of healing. Thank you for your candor and your faith. I needed both of them.
Laura, thank you for all of this. My life work centers in the dance of body and soul. As myinitiations resonate with yours, I don't think I could convey it any better. So I will keep and share your wisdom with my community and come back here. I hear, "Well done good and faithful one." And it all trembles, tender-hearted to the anguish and aliveness of each new day. Bowing.
Having a grandchild with severe disabilities, and now a husband with cancer has given me great pause in the word healing. Many use it without thinking what the word for the situation may really mean. There are a few that over time and study truly understand. A cousin prayed a prayer over my husband that showed he truly understood. In the ending of his prayer he said, “if his healing does not come in this life, then when the time of his PERFECT healing comes, then give him and his family peace in knowing he is at home with You.”
“Our bodies are allowed to cry out. God welcomes it.” 😭😭😭😭😭
I've been working on healing from some fractured friendships for a long time now and this line really hugged my little broken heart: "Healing is (to riff off the late great Eugene Peterson) a long rest in the right direction." This piece (much like so many of yours) was balm. Which is to say: you are part of another's "long rest in the right direction."
On a completely other note: As of late, I have been working out of a nearby public library a couple of days a week. I have taken to checking out books much more regularly. Recently I read a book that won the Pulitzer Prize. Your words rivaled hers in both your abilities to leave me stunned by beauty.
I am humbled and grateful for your faithfulness in work and words👊🏼🤟🏽👋🏾🤘🏽
Thank you, thank you, Laura. “To prove what prophets foretold, to break in the Kingdom among us, to reveal signs of the Spirit indwelling, to urge our limping souls to remember how God’s world shines.”
Like a leper who will not be ignored ❤️
❤️❤️😭😭 SO grateful for YOU and your writing!!!
Laura, I am moved to tears by your words/work in the world in general.
You know as well as anyone since you have written and reflected much on calling, that it may not be my calling to do the same work as you, but it is my prayer that the work I do, while very different, still somehow leave the people that encounter it saying “God bless Emily” in any sort of comparable way to how I am saying, “God bless Laura and her presence in this world” this morning. Our Holy Labors. Even if my labor is Sales Operations aka lots of pointed email writing, chasing lists of disparate tasks and just generally making bad things go away.
My wife is currently fighting cancer. I have muddled through the same questions and emotions, even though I’m not the one in need of healing. Thank you for your candor and your faith. I needed both of them.
Laura, thank you for all of this. My life work centers in the dance of body and soul. As myinitiations resonate with yours, I don't think I could convey it any better. So I will keep and share your wisdom with my community and come back here. I hear, "Well done good and faithful one." And it all trembles, tender-hearted to the anguish and aliveness of each new day. Bowing.