The below is an excerpt from the above book. It truly defines my life and God's grace.
"The geographical boundaries, the physical limitations, the restrictions on communication, have enforced a natural selectivity. There are not too many activities or things or people, and each one, I find, is significant, set apart in the frame of sufficient time and space. Here there is time; time to be quiet; time to work without pressure; time to think; time to watch the heron, watching with frozen patience for his prey. Time to look at the stars or to study a shell; time to see friends, to gossip, to laugh, to talk. Time, even, not to talk...
*Here in this small town I find I can sit with a friend without talking, sharing the day's last sliver of pale green light on the horizon, or the whorls in a small white shell, or the dark scar left in a dazzling night sky by communion and one is nourished as one never is by words....
Here, where there is time and space, the physical tasks are a welcome change..." - Ann Marrow Linbergh
I happened upon the book at the Restore in North Beach when I used to be a volunteer. After reading it, I discovered that over time, the book and I were gradually making our way toward one another. We were destined to meet at that very point in time when my fingers touched it...when it spoke to my spirit and I had to buy it and bring it HOME with me.
*Note: Her book says, "here on the island..."
Thank you Father for time. Let me never take it for granted. In Jesus precious name. Amen
