Paris has been on my "must-travel" list ever since I was a wee little girl learning about the Eiffel Tower. I think I would love it there, and I KNOW I would love it if I could travel there for FREE!
I want to go to there. In a bad way.
Jordan of Oh Happy Day is offering a very generous giveaway: airfare to Paris, a 7-night stay at the adorable and chic Mama Shelter boutique hotel, and a personal tour of Jordan's favorite Parisian sites.
If you want to enter for yourself, go here. You better hurry though. I'm posting this close to the deadline so fewer people will see this, and I'll have better odds of winning. ;) bahahaha.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
"She grew as she played, not only in technique but in maturity. The great masters pushed her as she tried faithfully to go where they led. We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. perhaps this is the chief way we mature." page 13
"A love which depends solely on romance, on the combustion of two attracting chemistries, tends to fizzle out. The famous lovers usually end up dead. A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love." page 76
"respond with excitement to the same beauty," "simultaneous recognition of wonder"
"Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of this universe--these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted." pages 76 and 77
"But the wonderful thing, whether we are together or apart, is to know that he is in the world, and that we belong together. And what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another is not good." page 103
"I do not want ever to be indifferent to the joys and beauties of this life. For through these, as through pain, we are enabled to see purpose in randomness, pattern in chaos. We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love." page 123
"We need to say "Thank you" whenever possible, even if we are not able to reconcile the human creature's free will with the Maker's working out of the pattern. Thanks and praise are, I believe, some of the threads with which the pattern is woven.
There are many times when the idea that there is indeed a pattern seems absurd wishful thinking. Random events abound. There is much in life that seems meaningless. And then, when I can see no evidence of meaning, some glimpse is given which reveals the strange weaving of purposefulness and beauty." page 125
"We learn to live in the cloud of unknowing, not only the cloud of God's mystery, but the cloud of unknowing waht is going to happen from day to day. That is always true, but when things go along routinely we are less aware of it." page 162
"If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative act involve the risk of failure. Marriage is a terrible risk. So is having children. So is giving a performance in the theatre, or the writing of a book. Whenever something is completed successfully, then we must move on, and that is again to risk failure." page 173
"We don't have to understand that prayer is love, and love is never wasted."-- page 185
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread."-page 232
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle
"A love which depends solely on romance, on the combustion of two attracting chemistries, tends to fizzle out. The famous lovers usually end up dead. A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love." page 76
"respond with excitement to the same beauty," "simultaneous recognition of wonder"
"Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of this universe--these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted." pages 76 and 77
"But the wonderful thing, whether we are together or apart, is to know that he is in the world, and that we belong together. And what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; it takes, rather than gives. To love so completely that you lose yourself in another is not good." page 103
"I do not want ever to be indifferent to the joys and beauties of this life. For through these, as through pain, we are enabled to see purpose in randomness, pattern in chaos. We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love." page 123
"We need to say "Thank you" whenever possible, even if we are not able to reconcile the human creature's free will with the Maker's working out of the pattern. Thanks and praise are, I believe, some of the threads with which the pattern is woven.
There are many times when the idea that there is indeed a pattern seems absurd wishful thinking. Random events abound. There is much in life that seems meaningless. And then, when I can see no evidence of meaning, some glimpse is given which reveals the strange weaving of purposefulness and beauty." page 125
"We learn to live in the cloud of unknowing, not only the cloud of God's mystery, but the cloud of unknowing waht is going to happen from day to day. That is always true, but when things go along routinely we are less aware of it." page 162
"If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative act involve the risk of failure. Marriage is a terrible risk. So is having children. So is giving a performance in the theatre, or the writing of a book. Whenever something is completed successfully, then we must move on, and that is again to risk failure." page 173
"We don't have to understand that prayer is love, and love is never wasted."-- page 185
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread."-page 232
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage by Madeleine L'Engle
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