Iĭecided I was jinxed, that I had bad car karma. See what lovely thing was getting itself born. Side of the road, I did not find it very inspiring: I did not look around to
Two days later, when it broke down by the
Rescinded, but while trying to figure out what to drive next, I rented what For instance, when the new car I was leasing had aĬomplete nervous breakdown a month ago, a friend helped me get the lease When it's my stuff, I believe the cause is I totally believe this to be true and I especially believe it when other Other words, perhaps it needed for you to be distracted so it could be born Protect something big and lovely that was trying to get itself born - that, in Seemingly meaningless things started going wrong all at once, it was to And he said gently that he believed that when a lot of It turned out that he workedįor the Dalai Lama. How infuriating her journey had been thus far. Two mornings later, on a train to herĬonference on healing, she began to whine at the man sitting beside her about Reserved room at the hotel had been given to someone else. Things going wrong: Carolyn Myss, who writes about healing, went to Russia aįew years ago to give a series of lectures. Wonderful to happen, because of this great story I heard recently about dumb Since Advent beganĪt the end of November, I've had a dozen calls reporting broken cars, Mercies: Be safe, notice beauty, enjoy the journey, God is with you.īesides the big brokennesses in people's lives this year, I've noticedĪll sorts of really dumb things breaking lately. This is what they say when one of us goes off for a while. "Traveling mercies," the old black people at our church said to her when You sit with people, she said, you bring them juiceĪnd graham crackers. The tenderest possible care of the more wounded people in the waiting room, She said the world sometimes feels like the waiting room of theĮmergency ward, and that we, who are more or less OK for now, need to take Lives and hearts get broken, those of people we love, those of people we'll Sunday of Advent our preacher, Veronica, said that this is life's nature, that Lives broke, hearts broke, health broke, minds broke. So much broke and broke down this year in my life, and in the lives of the people
Broken things have been on my mind as the year lurches to an end, because
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