Sue and Kathleen

When I finished When the Heart Waits, I dipped into it for a few days. Then, I sat at the little round table where I read and looked at the three books stacked there for many days now. Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, that I have had for many years without reading much of it. Caroline Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential, given me by another friend in 2002 and not much used because one needs a pencil and paper to do the work. And a comic murder mystery.

I picked up Amazing Grace, a dictionary-format book, with about two pages per entry. First, I chose "Detachment," then "Prayer," then "Bible," then "Anger," then "Seeking."

The first one I chose, "Detachment," was written as Lent began . . . and I realized Lent was a week old now, but that I could use it to work with the "waiting" I am doing (and the weight I have to shed . . . had been doing focused positive thinking and believed I must be 147 lbs., with 7 to drop to goal; lo and behold, I weigh 157! It is time for Lent!)

One of the surprising things was that things Norris said about prayer, for example, were just what Kidd was saying. I re-stumble on the same concepts, and know their truth.

The bad news is that living them is not as easy as it seems while sitting in the chair at the round table reading about them.

Stay tuned!