I do not know the source for this story. But I like the moral.
Karin
Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it.
From a distance, each looks like every other horse.
But if one stops the car, or is walking by, one will notice something quite amazing. Looking into the [...]
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A little story
June 2nd, 2008 — , About God, Guest writer from Karin @ Savvy Thinker
How we get through hard times
February 7th, 2008 — About God, Adoption, Joy and happiness, Just thinking, Opportunity from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
This quote came across my computer today:
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt 1767-1835, German Statesman
I have to say I don’t totally agree with this. [...]
More good news
December 19th, 2007 — About God, Joy and happiness, Just thinking from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
I was so happy to see the father and his children saved, after being lost in the snow.
On another front: a friend’s husband is getter better by the day after not being able to work for several weeks. Doctors had not been able to help him. This turn around came, [...]
Of fortune cookies and adoption and life
December 11th, 2007 — About God, Adoption, Just thinking, Prayer from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
Yesterday, after dinner, I gave my fortune cookie to my youngest, very nearly age 10, but told her I wanted the fortune.
She handed it to me, saying it was a really good one.
Yes, it was, fraught with responsibility, but definitely a keeper:
God will give you everything that you want.
Yikes. Of course, I know that [...]
Pay attention to the little stings of life
October 9th, 2007 — About God, Guest writer, Prayer from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
Norris Burkes writes thought provoking essays about real life and God. This essay talks about almost losing his daughter to a bee sting, but her new boyfriend thought fast enough to be aware. I like the analogy he gives with it.
…The whole thing got me thinking how we constantly obsess over the cataclysmic [...]
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Trimming trees
September 13th, 2007 — About God, Just thinking from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
I love our palm trees, but they are the messiest things over the sidewalk when they get their berries. We were due to get them trimmed for a few weeks, but no one stopped by.
As I type they are being trimmed.
About two weeks ago our paper featured a story of unscrupulous trimmers who cut [...]
Seeing the present moment as a sacrament
September 6th, 2007 — About God, Hope, Humor, Joy and happiness, Just thinking, Memory and forgetting, Quotations from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
Maybe, I put blinkers on, but I can’t remember any miserable times in my life. I see the present moment as a sacrament. It’s all about sacrament — eating, conversing, being with friends, telling a good joke and making people laugh. Sister Immaculata Knox
Seeing the human and divine coincidence in the particular, [...]
A little trip serendipity
August 19th, 2007 — About God, Travel from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
I have a very good friend who lives about 1500 miles from me.
We were emailing while I was on my trip, only to find out she and her husband were flying to Denver the morning we were changing planes in Denver. We arrived in Denver within minutes of each other. She phoned me [...]
Taming the tiger
August 4th, 2007 — About God, Anger, Forgiveness, Friendship, Hope, Just thinking, Parenting from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
I learned through years of parenting that usually there is one of three things behind a child’s tantrum: either they need food, they need sleep or they need love.
That’s such a truism for life, really. When I have a hard day, it’s generally because I need some rest, but the other two factor [...]
More on if you could change your past
August 2nd, 2007 — About God, Adoption, Guest writer, Just thinking, Movies, Parenting, Quotations from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ the 1946 movie with Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey. I googled ‘what if I had never been born movie’ …up popped this familiar film, with this Plot Outline: “An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.” Clarence [...]
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August 1st, 2007 — About God, Books, Just thinking from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart. -Robert M. Sapolsky, neuroscientist and author (1957- )
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other [...]
Hard truths of adoption, told softly
July 28th, 2007 — About God, Adoption, Just thinking from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
There are many hard truths of adoption, all of which our children own. After all, it is their story. And age appropriately we share with them so they have the knowledge they need to take into the world with them.
And some things may turn out to be unexpectedly difficult or hard for our [...]
Entwined fate(s) and forgiveness
July 20th, 2007 — About God, Forgiveness, Friendship, Just thinking, Quotations, Relationships, Resentment from Karin @ SavvyThinker.com
To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking. Hugh Downs
Forgiveness is not an elective in the curriculum of life. It is a required course, and the exams are always tough to pass.
Charles Swindoll
These two quotes happened [...]
