I’ve been sick this week. After a huge party to celebrate my 40th birthday – which was amazing – Penny got sick last weekend and then I caught it, mainly in my sinuses. I am not sure why being sick always brings waves of grief on me, but it does. Perhaps because Anita took care [...]
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I found this on Anita’s computer titles “Read me” and dated December 21, 2006. It is a passage from Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Counting The Cost, By C.S. Lewis: “The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self–all your wishes and precautions–to Christ. “Christ says ‘Give me All. I don’t want so [...] December 31, 2006 The master in the art of living makes little distinction between her work and her play, her labor and her leisure, her mind and her body, her information and her recreation, her love and her religion. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence at whatever she does, [...] November 16, 2006 – Anita was seeking to define herself and her future in the weeks after she quit her firm job. She made this list of things she wanted to do and then some things she thought unique about herself.
I want to make a comfortable living by working out of my home I want to [...] Psalm 37:4 “Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” From Anita’s notes on her computer. February 3, 2009 Delighted in the Lord – Desires of your heart How to be delighted in the Lord? Remember, it’s all about Him, not about us Must be willing to commit my life to Him [...] I feel like today is a lost day. That term just came into my mind. “Lost Day” It’s how I describe a day where nothing is really planned, and I don’t really end up doing anything. Let me rephrase. Although I enjoy relaxing days and nothing days, I do not enjoy days where I feel there are [...] Today I was reminded how inspired and full of God’s love I feel when I sift through old boxes of Anita’s papers. For my accountant today I dug into a box of old bill stubs, or so I thought. Half way down I realized it was another box of Anita’s to-do lists, brainstorms and inspirational [...] I found this in the back of our coat closet. It is a collage of magazine images and words (heavy on words – this is Anita we are talking about) that Anita made around January 2007. The directions were to cerate a college filled with images and phrases of things that are important to you [...] I found this free floating note card in a box of papers and things. Anita has written on it in black Sharpie: Fear not the future; This one was something of a mystery to me – not what it meant but what it meant to Anita and in what context. A Google search [...] Inside the front cover of Anita’s book Secrets in the Dark by Frederick Buechner, she wrote some notes. This one jumped out at me this morning: 11/27/06 You have only one decision to make: to follow God or not. If you choose to follow God, you cannot fail. Your life is your ministry. It’s no secret and no [...] |
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