tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325300274115265117.post1137571631651677323..comments2024-03-09T18:59:51.444-07:00Comments on Raima Larter - Author: Meeting God at the Coffee ShopRaimahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817382167424203932noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325300274115265117.post-31153742108430587752010-07-26T21:39:24.170-06:002010-07-26T21:39:24.170-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325300274115265117.post-65808887455984809312010-01-26T23:43:04.628-07:002010-01-26T23:43:04.628-07:00Raima,
I believe in that realization, that knowin...Raima,<br /><br />I believe in that realization, that knowing, you experienced a moment of grace. What a wonderful realization. Thank you for sharing that with us.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16689391855366931022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325300274115265117.post-74543016558483650302010-01-26T10:13:17.690-07:002010-01-26T10:13:17.690-07:00I suppose that one could meditate on the scene and...I suppose that one could meditate on the scene and imagine a different event, as this reader has done, but that wouldn't be what happened. I am happy to have been able to share with all of you what actually happened, since it caught me unawares and unprepared. Sometimes the truth breaks through in the most unexpected places.<br /><br />Thank you, Brenda, for your kind words - and Barbara, I think your grandson Oliver is a very lucky little boy!Raimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817382167424203932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325300274115265117.post-33403270394118508142010-01-25T09:38:21.594-07:002010-01-25T09:38:21.594-07:00I took a different path than you and left you at &...I took a different path than you and left you at "in search of their morning coffee." I stayed with the man enjoying his unhurried presence and slowing morphed into his unhurried posture. I found myself sitting with him, though not at his table. In my unhurriedness, I lost sight of him to find and enjoy my own quieted center. After an unknown while, I realized that he was gone and I had returned from my peace-filled center. <br /><br />Could someone have seen us both and found peace?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325300274115265117.post-38435786249042156072010-01-24T22:02:53.473-07:002010-01-24T22:02:53.473-07:00United Methodist Bishop John Schol spoke at an eve...United Methodist Bishop John Schol spoke at an evening Prayer for Haiti service at Foundry United Methodist Church last week. He said that when our world shakes (I'm sure he meant figuratively as well as literally), we have three natural reactions: sadness, fear, and doubt. To deal with sadness, we need to connect with others; to counter fear, we need to act; and to deal with doubt, we need to remember that nothing--nothing--can separate us from God's love. <br /><br />My ardent wish for my first grandson, six-month-old Oliver, is that he will learn right now from the beginning of his life that God loves him fully and always. Since Oliver experiences God's love through love expressed by those of us around him, I want to show him that love in every way possible: holding him when he cries, returning smiles, picking up toys that he can't reach, helping him touch the pointy Christmas tree needles so that he understands nature, reading books with bright pictures of objects he is learning to know, singing and dancing to music that brings him delight, and being there when he needs a caring adult. <br /><br />If he experiences love deeply enough, my hope is that he will love himself enough to love others and to know God. Even in the darkest times he may be able to know that God still loves him. I'm learning from so many Haitians the truth of that profound awareness of God's love in the midst of devastation.<br /><br />Thanks, Raima, for refreshing our awareness that God is with us always.Barbara Cambridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508125584351917237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7325300274115265117.post-7474831326179236662010-01-24T17:51:11.692-07:002010-01-24T17:51:11.692-07:00This was a deeply moving moment shared with the wo...This was a deeply moving moment shared with the world.<br />We are grateful that you did.<br />As Paul says in Romans....."nothing can separate us from the love of God." Nothing.<br />Thank you for such an eloquent reminder. It was profound.Brenda Finklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08508803505556757165noreply@blogger.com