Saw this cheering story on yahoo news. Gratitude with a long memory.
“An Army veteran who remembered getting free coffee and doughnuts from the Salvation Army decades ago gave a $10,000 check to a dumbfounded bell-ringer. “The $10,000 is to help pay for my coffee and donuts,” he said in a handwritten note signed, “P.F.C.” “Seems [...]
Archive for December 20th, 2007
Gratitude with memory
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burn.
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Driving into work this morning, we were treated the most awesome (word used advisedly – awe-some) morning sky I’ve seen in a very long time.
When people describe the sky as ‘on fire’ that must have been like what they mean.
deus absconditus, belfast lough
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It was Tuesday and I was summoned home with the news that my father had collapsed in his study. Two hours later and he was at the hospital awaiting tests. Thankfully these turned out to bring positive news. There was no heart attack and no stroke and so I picked him up at the casualty unit [...]
new eyes
Posted in reminders, tagged discovery, proust on December 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Found this today on a post by Jonny Baker. Thought it kinda summed up this Advent attentiveness thing.
the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes
marcel proust
advent reminder
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received this email from a former student yesterday, a timely reminder
Dear Friends and Family,
This advent, I am preparing for something more than Christmas; I am preparing to be a part of a Christian Peacemaker Team delegation to Palestine/Israel in January. Much of the preparatory reading for the trip has included reflections on the first [...]
