Shaking the Grapevine - Comments

sanemom comments on Befriending the Red Herring

sanemom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:19 +0000

Nice point Mark, thanks for the thought! I agree that sometimes true direction comes in the most whimsical of packages. Always keeping our eyes open to opportunities is important.

Mark comments on Befriending the Red Herring

Mark — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:37:42 +0000

Interesting. Ive loved this image for a long time. I have a little different feeling about it.
I think sometimes you have to embrace something positivley to understand if it presents an opportunity that you might have otherwise dismissed. So grab the red herring and embrace it, it may turn out to be a whole new direction

Carolyn Meiselbach comments on Catalysts for Change : Embracing Devastating Opportunities

Carolyn Meiselbach — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:53:33 +0000

you made a terrrible circunstance seem somhow hopeful. You are a genius to be able to see the good in that devastation, but change is always good whether we acknowledge it right away for not. It's always another golden opportunity, but it takes time to see the good out of the chaos and pain it creates. we have to remember...thats our job.

sanemom comments on The Faith Factor

sanemom — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:42:21 +0000

it looked like you were saying that faith comes from working, but I think you were actually saying that, when one has the faith to move forward, one does, and work ensues as a fruit, out-come or effect of faith, rather than the other way around.

@mike, yes, and thanks. i was picturing the leunig cartoon that shows a man stepping onto an unfolding road when writing (can't find pics anywhere), which @kozoji introduced to me awhile back. the path unfolding, and the steps you take on it that show it's existence: the work and the fruit.
ie: kozoji's faith is evidenced by her masters work.

Mike comments on The Faith Factor

Mike — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:48:53 +0000

as per our conversation, it looked like you were saying that faith comes from working, but I think you were actually saying that, when one has the faith to move forward, one does, and work ensues as a fruit, out-come or effect of faith, rather than the other way around. We do not work on faith. Faith is not a personal attribute, but a sense, a path, an approach. The two "first" words in the only biblical definition of faith given are "substance" and "evidence." No blind leaps, no "believing something you can't see", no "system of religious doctrine," no "trust, really."

sanemom comments on The Faith Factor

sanemom — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:15:28 +0000

congrats on the masters, kozoji! and sorry to hear about the flu :( may it be short-lived, and fly away soon without being shared. sleep well :).

kozoji comments on The Faith Factor

kozoji — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:19:12 +0000

Ha! I just re-read what I wrote, and let me rewrite that last bit....

"So I will take my other daughter to school, submit my Masters, come home, take my swine flu daughter to the doctor around the corner, come home again, and sleep."

Have faith!

kozoji comments on The Faith Factor

kozoji — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:59:33 +0000

What a very timely topic for me!

Last year, my world turned around and the kids changed schools to a school that is both a new academic language for them (English) and very very very expensive. I had only my faith to think that I could ever keep the dream of international education going... and I (very suddenly, I might add) enrolled in a Masters.

I enrolled in a Masters so that I could get a job AT that school.

Part way through the Masters I found I also needed a Diploma of Education (another year at least).

And I set my sights on being the librarian, which would require another Masters (another year at least).

I have just NOW (seriously, a few minutes ago) finished that first Masters. I have no idea yet whether I will get a job next school year (maybe not?) or even the year after that (I would really hope so) and I don't know if the librarian thing is akin to me thinking that pigs will fly off into space taking swine flu with them, BUT.... for now the faith is there that somehow, something will work out and I will not spend my whole life worrying about money and the relative happiness of my kids in school.

And while we're on the topic of swine flu.... the reason I JUST finished my Masters a couple of minutes ago (as opposed to tomorrow morning when I was scheduled to write up that last 1200 word report), is that at 3:30 in the morning, two hours ago, my daughter got the swine flu and came into our bed with a raging fever. So rather than roast in there with her, I got up and finished my Masters.

Tomorrow I will take my other daughter to that very expensive international school, wearing my "Deadline" t-shirt and carrying my laptop so I can submit my final assignments (ironically, I can't send them from home, the internet connection is apparently friendlier at an International School).

So I will take my other daughter to school, submit my Masters, come home, and sleep.

And have faith that it will all work out somehow...

hoodia comments on Handling Criticism: How Thick is Your Skin?

hoodia — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:08:09 +0000

Nice but i think something is missing.

sanemom comments on Love

sanemom — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:55:41 +0000

Forgot to add this link > See Sinead O'Connor singing the Song of Solomon