#what matters

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Anyone who doesn't care for little things will fail when it comes to the big ones." Lao Tzu.

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

[lebuc]

what matters

* '…or forever', said she, matter of factly

to my question as we worked the same shift,

about how long she would like to keep sharing our mutual lunchbreaks

usually lasting about an hour, generously speaking.

my iced tea tried to leap out of my mouth, requiring a Herculean effort to keep it all contained

as well as my raised eyebrow inclination & widened eyes.

i guess i did a pretty good job at both, to my dismay/chagrin,

when following an awkward silent pause post-swallow, she then said: '…or never';

if it doesn't really matter to you;

to which i later replied, after chewing: 'good sushi',

'cause good sushi matters. * 9/23 - lebuc - what matters *

P.S.: after lo' these many years, our daughter & son matter too - *with* good sushi...

[poetry-rivers]

What other people think of you, what they say, are burdens no one should carry. Lift a spoon,

a cup, things that fit in your hand. Carry on a conversation, pick up a baby. Listen to the wind

when it whispers, nothing else. There is no one watching you, no one straining to hear what

you say. The present has arrived and you are in it. Your heart is pumping. Your breath moves

in and out of your lungs without anyone’s help or permission. Let go of everything else. Let

your life, handed to you through no effort of your own, be all the proof you need. You are loved.

Terri Kirby Erickson, "What Matters" from A Sun Inside My Chest

[serenityquest]

[thepeacefulgarden]

[momentsbeforemass]

Perfect

“And there was none so perfect as Peter.”

It’s a verse that appears nowhere in the Bible. If you read all the stuff about Peter in the Gospels, you know why.

Peter is the king of overpromising and underperforming.

Of blurting out whatever, whenever. Of missing the painfully obvious. Of not knowing when to quit. Or when to start. Someone who can go from fighting to the death to running away in 3.9 seconds.

And Peter is exactly who Jesus picks to build the Church on in today’s Gospel.

Not because Jesus is an idiot. But because Jesus knows Peter. Jesus knows everything that Peter will get wrong. Including Peter’s denial of Jesus in the small hours of the morning on Good Friday.

And Jesus still picks him? Yes. Because Jesus knows Peter. Better than Peter knows Peter.

Jesus knows the heart of Peter. Jesus knows that, in spite of Peter’s worst impulses, Peter will keep stumbling towards Him. Peter will lose count of how many times he has fallen.

But Jesus knows how many times Peter will get back up. Jesus knows that Peter will keep trying.

In choosing Peter, Jesus shows us what matters most. 

It’s the same way for you and me. Because God knows us. Better than we know us.

What matters most to God? Isn’t knowing what to do and what to say.

What matters most to God? Isn’t perfect performance.

What matters most to God? Is your heart. And the count.

Not the count of how many times you fall. God doesn’t care how many times you fall.

What matters to God is how many times you get back up.

Which is why God will always help you, every time you even try to get back up.

Today’s Readings

[tears-that-heal]

Saw this “saying” on one of the Star Wars Clone Wars episode intros, and it’s true words of wisdom.

“You may think you know what or who your suppose to be, but your perception can easily be a possible reaction to the people and culture around you.” Quote by me, Elena M.K. ☺️

[philosohappy]

“Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.”

“Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.”

Quotes by Carlos Castaneda

[robertogreco]

“Gardening is not just a set of tasks. It’s not restricted to backyards, courtyards, balconies. It can, and should, happen anywhere, everywhere. Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care and action. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively, and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It’s a way of being that is intimately interwoven with the real truths of existence—not the things we’re told to value (money, status, ownership), but the things that actually matter (sustenance, perspective, beauty, connection, growth).”

—Georgina Reid, “Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care” (via Jo Suk on Are.na)

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you." Attributed to Nelson Mandela.

[wordsofwisdomandsoul]

[gramarobin]

[liahleeh]

Quase nunca recebemos o que a gente dá, mas sempre damos o que a gente é, e é isso o que verdadeiramente importa. Por fim, o meu melhor nunca dependeu do pior de ninguém e é isso que me conforta.

[blurredlandscape]

unbeknownst to me

who do you wish i was?

who do you want me to be?

screaming in ecstacy

embrace me

I want to send us into outer space

spinning astronaut's hug

tight against a boundless stary night

Two willful souls in search of

love outside this galaxy

knowing we might never align

is the saddest part of my day

I want to know the sunken, solitary

side of you

beneath your worldly subterfuge

show me your hot, scalding breath

and your wilted demon eyes

held, in their glistening

depths

the tongue of yours they'd repudiate

the sex of you everyone attempts to shame

because i'd love those parts of you

society's cast-off

like so much wounded weight

[soulinkpoetry]

Yes, the outside matters, but nothing excites more, than discovering what’s hidden in someone’s soul.

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