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Taken at Seishinin-a Shingon Sect Buddhist temple in Kyoto. The history of the temple dates back to the Heian period and is associated with the famous poet Izumi Shikibu- who was a contemporary and rival of Murasaki Shikibu, author of Tale of the Genji. The temple was rebuilt in its current location by order of Toyotomi Hideyoshi sometime between 1573 and 1591. The grave of Izumi Shikibu is located on the premises.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths." Proverbs 3:5-6
Read: John 4:46-54
The above picture is of a deer my husband's grandfather feeds. I know, he probably shouldn't be feeding the deer because you aren't suppose to monkey with the system of nature. Feeding them only makes them depended upon you when they should be relying upon the wilderness to feed them. But Grandpa Alan is in his 90's and has compassion for animals and he only feeds them a mixture of grain and corn. I think feeding his deer gives him a sense of purpose and allows him to love on them the only way he can.
My family spent Christmas with the in-laws and had an opportunity to visit the cabin where the grandparents still live. The cabin in nestled up in the mountains surrounded by pasture and woods. We arrived to the cabin just in time for Grandpa to feed his deer. I know this because when I walked out the back door to take pictures I was greeted by this deer who was standing on the other side of the fence that separates the house yard from the pasture. She knew Grandpa would be coming out soon and was expectantly waiting for him.
Why?
Because she trusted that at that time every day he would be there to give her some feed.
This reminds me of the parable of the healing of the nobleman's son I read this morning in John 4. Jesus had come back to Cana of Galilee where He performed His first miracle of turning water into wine. I'm sure the nobleman knew this and saw an opportunity for Jesus to heal his dying son. In verse 50 Jesus said to the nobleman, "Go; your son lives." We know from verse 49 that the nobleman wanted Jesus to journey to his house to heal his son because he thought that Jesus needed to be at the bedside to do this. But that isn't want Jesus did.
I will not say what Jesus was thinking because I don't know. But verse 48 indicates that He must have been thinking that the people were seeking Him out to see more signs and miracles. Because seeing them makes it easier to believe. Maybe He knew this nobleman needed to take his faith to a different level. To put his faith into practice. To learn to trust.
The nobleman journeyed home not knowing if his son was going to be healed or not. I wonder how difficult that was for him to do? Would I have been able to do what this nobleman did? I know I'd be at a desperate state by this time knowing my child was on his deathbed and wanting the miracle of healing. Could I have walked a day's journey home wondering if not bringing Jesus home with me was the right thing to do? To blindly trust that my child would be headed because Jesus just told me he would be?
In the end we know that as Jesus spoke His words of healing that the son was instantly healed. The nobleman didn't know this until he was almost home.
Friends, I don't know about you but this year I want to have that kind of trust in the Lord. Sometimes I feel like I trust Him but my human nature always fights this by wanting me to trust in everything but Him. In many ways I want to be like this deer as I wait expectantly at the feet of Jesus blindly trusting that He will take care of me in the way I need taken care of. To blindly trust Him in the good times and well as the bad times.
If you are a journaling kind of person I want to challenge you to do a quick word study on trust. It doesn't have to be in-depth. Just go to the back of your bible and look up the word trust. Look up all the verses listed below the word and read through them. Maybe pull one verse out of the rest that speaks to you. I would love it if you leave a comment and share what you learn with us.
Krista Jones - 1.7.15
Taken from Stillness in the Morning Blog
I've visited many Compassion International projects in the last few years. From Guatemala, Uganda, Philippines, and here in Haiti. I'm blown away every time by the hope these children have despite living in such dire situations. This picture gets me because of the look on this kids face. He was so proud to hold that sign (he made it by the way, not us.)
For those of you unfamiliar with Compassion International, they are literally changing the lives of over a million children in poverty around the world. This is only possible through sponsorships from you and me. If you want to know more about Compassion, you can contact me or visit their website at Compassion.com
This painting has a story behind it. A doctor friend of mine came to me and asked me to reproduce this picture for him. He told me that the little girl in the picture has a terminal illness, and probably wouldn't live much longer. I felt honored to be asked to do such a painting. In the painting her father is holding his daughter, and the doctor told me that they praying so that she might get better. I don't know how the little girl is doing, but I am moved everytime I see this painting, or a photo of it.
photo attribution: sean dreilinger durak.org
Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D.
Mind and Life Institute
Educated both in classical Tibetan system and Cambridge University, Thupten Jinpa has been the principal English translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama for over two decades.
Jinpa is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and the president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. He is also a founding member of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Stanford University, where he was the main author of CCARE?s eight-week Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) program. Currently, Jinpa is the Chairman of the Mind and Life Institute, an organization dedicated to promoting dialogues and collaborations between contemporary science and contemplative insights and perspectives.
view Thupten Jinpa - Can Compassion be Cultivated? - TEDxSanDiego 201 on a black background.
This quote hung on Dorothea Lange's dark room door:
"The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention."
~ Francis Bacon
In our daily lives we may not particularly like what we hear and see, but when one has the courage to contemplate these things without error, confusion, or our imagination, then one is in a nobler place where compassion will come forth.
Compassion for one's self...,
Compassion for another...
Dorothea Lange held a compassionate eye behind her camera.
Our Daily Challenge
"Communication"
and
I Believe In Magic
Day 22... *Courage*
and
Working Towards a Better World
*Communication-Courage-Compassion*
A couple of students at the Compassion Project in the Mathare Slum. (Read more at: www.bradruggles.com/category/kenya-trip/)
Sedos presents the heartbreaking musical Dofight, by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, authors of the Tony-winning sensation Dear Evan Hansen.
Bridewell Theatre
6-10 March 2018
sedos.co.uk/2018/dogfight.htm
Before creating the Tony-winning sensation Dear Evan Hansen, writers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul delivered the heartbreaking and beautiful musical, Dogfight. This emotional journey depicts the blissful ignorance of youth, compassion in the face of cruelty and the ability to find true inner strength and acceptance despite the brutality of life and war.
Dogfight is set in San Francisco on November 21, 1963, on the eve of the Kennedy assassination. The majority of the show takes place in the final hours of an age of American innocence that will quickly dissipate. This innocence is depicted by a group of young Marines who set out for one final boys’ night of debauchery: booze, tattoos and the dogfight.
The rules of the dogfight are simple and cruel: each marine pays in $50, and the marine with the ugliest date wins. But, when one of these Marines, Eddie Birdlace, meets Rose, an awkward and idealistic waitress whom he invites to join him that night, she rewrites the rules of the game and teaches him the power of love and kindness.
Based on the 1991 movie of the same name starring River Phoenix, Dogfight premièred Off-Broadway in 2012, when it won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and was nominated for 5 Outer Critics Circle and 2 Drama Desk Awards.
“Easily the most delicate, surprising, musically satisfying score since Spring Awakening” Time Out New York
Find out more at www.sedos.co.uk/2018/dogfight.htm
Photography by Michael Smith
avalokiteshvara. tibetan monks visit and create a Compassion sand mandala.
this is going on all week right nearby at the parrish museum(!). the energy is such a gift and reminder ..
thank you universe.