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Rachel H.

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"And this our life, exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones"

Columbus, OH, USA
female, age 54
single, 3 children
Speaks: English
Joined Jun 21, 2006

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Deep calls to deep

in the roar of your waterfalls

all your waves and breakers

have swept over me

By day the Lord directs his love

at night his song is with me -

a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us." Annie Lamott

The Color Green

And the moon is a sliver of silver
Like a shaving that fell on the floor of a Carpenter's shop
And every house must have it's builder
And I awoke in the house of God
Where the windows are mornings and evenings
Stretched from the sun
Across the sky north to south
And on my way to early meeting
I heard the rocks crying out
I heard the rocks crying out

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands
Suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land
Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made
Blue for the sky and the color green that fills these fields with praise

And the wrens have returned and they're nesting
In the hollow of that oak where his heart once had been
And he lifts up his arms in a blessing for being born again
And the streams are all swollen with winter
Winter unfrozen and free to run away now
And I'm amazed when I remember
Who it was that built this house
And with the rocks I cry out

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands
Suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land
Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made
Blue for the sky and the color green

Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands
Suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land
Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made
Blue for the sky and the color green that fills these fields with praise

Rich Mullins - who took me out of a dark place once!

Annie Dillard said: “I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...”

“As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net."

Curiously, loss is gain.

"In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence.... Watch and see and become entangled with mystery.’ A. Dillard

I simply do not know how to properly explain grace....I am learning how to receive it. Grace flows downhill.

I would have written of me on my stone; I had a lover's quarrel with the world. Robert Frost

So much talk about love. So much talk about forgiveness. So much talk. Let my words be few. Let me do.

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. -Wendell Berry

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The question before me, now that I
am old, is not how to be dead,
which I know from enough practice,
but how to be alive, as these worn
hills still tell, and some paintings
of Paul Cezanne, and this mere
singing wren, who thinks he's alive
forever, this instant, and may be.

Wendell Berry

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To my God:
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. John Donne Holy Sonnet XIV

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The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming the capacity we all have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of human relationships, the strength of touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the grace of someone else taking you as you are and finding in you an unexpected goodness.

--Rachel Naomi Remen

"I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of integrity."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Regarding Time:

"...a ripple of wind comes down from the woods and across the clearing toward us. We see a wave of shadow and gloss, where the short grass bends and the cottage eaves tremble. It hits us in the back. It is a single gust, a sport, a rogue breeze out of the north . . . Fall! Who authorized this intrusion? Stop or I’ll shoot. It is an entirely misplaced air -- fail, that I have utterly forgotten, that could be here again, another fall, and here it is only July. I thought I was younger and would have more time. The breeze just crosses the river then blackens the water where it passes, like a finger closing slats "

Annie Dillard

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I long for a world where the "rich have not too much and the poor have enough"....Paul of Tarsus

The Sin Of Omission

(Margaret E. Sangster)

It isn't the thing you do, dear;

It's the thing you leave undone,

That gives you a bit of heartache

At setting of the sun.

The tender word forgotten,

The letter you did not write,

The flowers you did not send, dear,

Are your haunting ghosts to-night.

The stone you might have lifted

Out of a brother's way,

The bit of heartsome counsel

You were hurried too much to say;

The loving touch of the hand, dear,

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The gentle and winsome tone,

Which you had no time nor thought for,

With troubles enough of your own.

Those little acts of kindness,

So easily out of mind;

Those chances to be angels

Which every one may find --

They come in night and silence --

Each chill, reproachful wraith --

When hope is faint and flagging

And a blight has dropped on faith.

For life is all too short, dear,

And sorrow is all too great;

To suffer our slow compassion

That tarries until too late;

And it's not the thing you do, dear,

It's the thing you leave undone,

Which gives you a bit of heartache

At the setting of the sun.

Love

Although i speak in tongues
Of men and angels
I'm just sounding brass
And tinkling cymbals without love--

Love suffers long--
Love is kind!--
Enduring all things--
Love has no evil in mind

If i had the gift of prophecy--
And all the knowledge--
And the faith to move the mountains
Even if i understood all of the mysteries--
If i didn't have love
I'd be nothing

Love--never looks for love--
Love's not puffed up--
Or envious--
Or touchy--
Because it rejoices in the truth
Not in iniquity
Love sees like a child sees

As a child i spoke as a child--
I thought and i understood as a child--
But when i became a woman--
I put away childish things
And began to see through a glass darkly

Where, as a child, i saw it face to face
Now, i only know it in part
Fractions in me
Of faith and hope and love
And of these great three
Love's the greatest beauty
Love

Joni Mitchell
(I Corinthians 13 paraphrased)

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. ~Henry David Thoreau

All who wander are not lost! unknown

I am simply fascinated with the Emperor penguin! What a creature! I learn something of love, devotion, community, and tenacity from these creatures!

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"I would give my entire life's work for one good conversation." Giacometti

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Hometown	Hartsville, S.C.
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Birthday	Sept 03, 1955
Languages	English
About Me	Just a simple girl.
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Lifestyle
Pets	Cats
Activist Aspirations
Political Leaning
Religions	Christian Spirituality
Eating Habits	Sensible and healthy
Wild Fact About Me	I never grew up! I try to act like it sometimes.
My Philosophy	In a nutshell: grace Small word, BIG concept
What Gives Me Hope	Grace
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by	I'd tell everyone to run for the hills. Seriously couldn't do it!
What/who changed my life and why	Everything, everyone. Because everything leaves its print....
What Bugs Me	People who won't listen. Those who judge
Passions	Nature, Music, Art, People
Inspirations	God, the sky and heavens, the earth, The elderly, Children
What Scares Me	Not knowing, not understanding
Favorites
Role Models	Jesus, Annie Dillard, Wendel Berry, Joni Mitchell
Quotation
Interests	Everything!
Books	Too many to list
Music	insanely eclectic
Movies
TV Shows
Favorite Foods
Favorite Places	deep woods, ocean, my creek
Can't Live Without	Love, touch, kids, pets, music
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Nov 26, 2009 2:58 AM
Lila S. (43)
Nov 23, 2009 11:42 PM
Rowan B. (100)	May you always be bountiful.
Nov 23, 2009 7:30 AM
Brendan K. (144)	I wish you a truly blessed week, dearest Rachel. Take care always and stay safe.
Nov 22, 2009 9:45 AM
Brendan K. (144)	I am thinking of you always with love and affection. You are a really special person, Rachel. Hugs and love always and forever.
Nov 19, 2009 7:16 AM
Brendan K. (144)
Nov 18, 2009 11:33 PM
Brendan K. (144)	Just a quickie comment to greet you on your return from work and letting you know I care. Have a good night's sleep tonight.
Nov 18, 2009 7:30 AM
Brendan K. (144)	This is the sort of friend I shall always try to be to you, Rachel.
Nov 17, 2009 11:52 PM
Carmel M. (56)
Nov 17, 2009 7:14 AM
Brendan K. (144)	This is becoming a habit of mine - but not a bad habit I must say. Especially this morning when I have a sneaky feeling you may need a hug. Take care, my dear Rachel, you are precious and this hug is intended to tell you that.
Nov 17, 2009 6:53 AM
Rowan B. (100)	A little something sweet for a very special, Rachel.
Nov 16, 2009 7:16 AM
Brendan K. (144)	Rachel, did I ever tell you that you are a wonderful woman. In case I didn't let me tell you now. You are a wonderful woman - and so attractive too. Have a great day. Love and hugs always....
Nov 15, 2009 9:11 AM
Brendan K. (144)	Good morning, Rachel. I know you are probably still asleep - but when you wake let me be the first to greet you. Have a wonderful day - it is Sunday and a day to rest.
Nov 14, 2009 11:41 PM
Brendan K. (144)	Dearest Rachel, Let the tranquility of the sea fill your soul and give you rest. I want you to know I am always thinking of you Thank you for being a very special and dear friend.
Nov 14, 2009 11:14 AM
Rowan B. (100)
Nov 9, 2009 2:55 AM
Rachel H. (231)	Rachel H. To the one who deleted his/her profile after being so mean To the mean person who commented on my photo. You are a coward. LOL! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Please do not disturb the peace. The birds love me as I am. And so do my real friends.
Oct 31, 2009 1:57 AM
Lila S. (43)
Oct 31, 2009 12:43 AM
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Oct 30, 2009 10:50 AM
Brendan K. (144)	Enjoy Hallowe'en, Rachel. If the ghosts try to scare you just tell them I will get them.
Oct 29, 2009 7:26 PM
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Oct 28, 2009 4:23 PM
Rowan B. (100)	Happy Halloween! Have a safe & happy weekend.

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