Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?
Lisa Tawn BergrenTags: time-travel ya
Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.
Lisa Tawn BergrenMy kingdom for a flush toilet.
Lisa Tawn BergrenI am here for a reason. This is no haphazard mistake. What good can I do with what I have?
Lisa Tawn BergrenWe are attempting to play God, when maybe God put us
here in the first place.” Father Tomas’s words by the stream came back to me. I could see his stick in the
river, the water dividing on either side. “We can only move forward with what we have been given. Negotiate
the river of life. Of time. And we’ve been given this,” I pleaded, waving at our circle. “Family. Love. Joy. Life.
Can we not embrace it, for as long as we have it? Isn’t it what we all most dearly want, deep down?
I think the trick to living fully,” I said, thinking through each word, “is to appreciate what we have, day by
day, regardless of what we know might come our way.” I took a breath and slowly looked from one of my
parents to the other. “If I live in fear of what might be, how can I truly live my life to the full in the present? And
if I do not give myself to the day, to hope, to life, what do I miss?” I raised my eyebrows and shook my head.
“Life itself, I think. At least the way I wanna live it.
I believe this country has already been painted by the hand of God. We can cover it over with our own creations, but it will merely mar what is already perfect
Lisa Tawn BergrenAnd sometimes, God asks us to wrestle with the unfamiliar until it becomes our new familiar. Until we can breathe freely in that new place.
Lisa Tawn BergrenI nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.
But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.
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Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about taking the right, expected step.
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