Category: Bliss

Aldingerstudio

3/2/2014

I’m very excited to introduce to you my daughter’s hand-designed, hand-made cards. Emily has been making cards for years, and has now decided to follow her bliss by selling her creations on line.

Those of you who have followed my blog for any length of time are probably aware that I usually don’t write personally about family and friends. Of course, there always are exceptions to the rule, and I’m sure you will understand this one. I’ve always believed in advocating for my own near and dear, and a daughter is definitely in that category. Her cards are appealing, imaginative and professionally crafted. She continually adds to her repertoire of designs for all occasions and holidays, and will create announcement cards and invitations to meet your particular specifications. You can find her cards on

http://www.etsy.com/shop/aldingerstudio

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Summer day gratitude~

8/20/2013

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I don’t have much to share today other than to say that this is just one of those rare summer days in which everything is prayer. God’s kingdom on earth, from coffee, scrambled eggs and bagel to reading and resting with my feet up. Even my granddog Scuppers joins me in being “Very grateful!”

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What is your bliss, your path to God?

1/26/2012

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     I’m back at the cottage with renewed time and space for thinking, for praying, for sitting in the mystery. I never know what will come along for me to ponder. Today it goes something like this. What it is for each person that anchors his/her bliss? For me it's solitude or to be more precise, it’s being alone. For others it might be something musical, a sport, following politics, a craft. I think of Mary Oliver writing poetry and I am also reminded of Howard Gardner’s ‘Multiple Intelligences’. These blisses may vary as we try different things and as our life changes, but I think that we are born with the seed of whatever it is, and then at some point, with God’s grace, we settle into that one thing that grounds us.
      Ultimately, I believe this is about our path to God, a path that is both universal and particular. Universal in a very general way of understanding. For example, those of you reading this most likely have some idea of what I’m talking about. Particular, in that we each need to find our own language to express it. Here are a few of mine: being with God, resting in God, at-one-ment (atonement).
      I am still wrestling with this, particularly because I am sadly aware that some people never find their bliss, never get settled, but instead remain in a state of anxiety, discontentment and depression about their life. Can that be part of God’s way? Or is it just the luck of the draw? Or…?

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Summer day gratitude~

What is your bliss, your path to God?

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