Tag: gifts

• The Blessing in the Breaking

  Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be…

  kathrynkong

  12 November 15

  kathrynkong, nonfiction

  awakening, death, family, gifts, grace, grief, reconciliation, seeing

• Pure Autumn Fragrance River

  I traveled through time this weekend. In the grey in-between time when light fades fast and crickets start to sing, I sat on a swing in the woods of my childhood home, and I found myself fifteen again on a sad and sleepless night, swinging my sorrows away. In that season, one who loved me…

  kathrynkong

  13 November 14

  kathrynkong, nonfiction

  broken heart, gifts, grief, Memory, naming, words

• Journal 2.14.11

  So often, after the illumination, this pulling back, this fear of following through on the promise. Revelation means responsibility; grace means response; promise means faith; vision means action. What will you do to take ownership of the gift that has been given to you?

  kathrynkong

  06 August 13

  kathrynkong, nonfiction

  gifts, grace, moving forward, pressing in, revelation