cold tangerines

Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist

This woman has one heck of an insight on life. Her stories, her thoughts, her struggles, all seem to fall into place with me.

It is strange to hear myself say "me too" every time I turn the page. Usually I'm saying, "I wish" or "Never have I ever."

In reading this book I have deepened my respect for the concept of "shalom". I have a friend who just tattooed this on her wrist, and when she was telling me about Shalom...I was reading shauna's chapter.

The idea of Shalom gives me goosebumps; its incredible how prominent shalom has become in my prayers, my thoughts, and my cravings for a faith that dives deeper and spreads wider ever since reading that chapter.

"There is a way of living, a way of harmonizing and hitting a balance point, a converging of a thousand balance points and voices, layering together, twisting together, and their are moments when it all clicks into place just for a split second - God and marriage and forgiveness and something deep inside us that feels like peace - and that is the place I am trying to get to. I have glimpses every once in a while of this achingly beautiful way of living that comes when the plates stop spinning and the masks fall off and the apologies come from the deepest places and so do the prayers, and I am fighting, elbowing to make more of that in my life." [shauna niequist]


more reflections to come. for now it's back to the books and the studying (yes, over spring break).