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January 2011

Cricket's Thoughts

Life Is Perfectly Balanced

Surrounded in nature, a sense of peace and comfort begins to penetrate the wall of protection I have built around me, slowly filtering through the cracks.

Berries

 

A favorite quote floats into my thoughts. God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Peace In The Woods

 

I am finding that although I am alone, I am not lonely.

At Dusk

 

Life is perfectly balanced here, in my special hideaway from the world.

 

Cricket Walker

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Simply No Reason

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.”

As beautiful as I have always found this to be, I have a difficult time embracing it.

Do you truly believe this?

What if you came into someone’s life for a season, but they came into yours for a lifetime?

What about families utterly destroyed by divorce?

The death of an unborn child?

What possible reasons could there be?

Why do we call it a miracle when someone survives a horrible illness? Does that mean those who didn’t survive were not worthy of a miracle?

Is it possible there is simply no reason?

Perhaps sometimes, it just is…

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What Do You See?

Have you ever wondered how two people can look at the exact same thing and each sees something totally different? It happens often enough that it is almost miraculous that we are able to effectively communicate with friends and loved ones at all.

When I look at this picture, I see a beach filled with broken pieces of life. Others may see the circle of life, nature simply taking back what was hers.

What do you see?

Perhaps the art of effective communication is as simple as asking what the other sees.

 

Cricket Walker

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The Quiet Place

Now and then I retreat into a world of my own, a place of stillness with muted emotions, a place to just be. It isn’t a light switch that I can switch on and poof, suddenly I am in the quiet place, but rather noticing over several days that I have become quieter, with very little interaction with others.

Sometimes I discover that somewhere in the back of my mind I have been dwelling on something that I should probably deal with. Other times I think perhaps it is just a mini-vacation from too much going on in a short period of time and I simply choose to reduce the stimuli around me for a bit.

Maybe it is a protection mode or wall that we all put up occasionally…

 

Cricket Walker

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Just A Rose

Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.” Author Unknown

When I took this picture of a rose, I put it away into one of my “someday” files. It just didn’t say anything to me at all. It was just a rose, ya know?

I simply hadn’t captured what I was seeing inside of me. The words were buried deep inside my very soul, but the image just wasn’t saying what I wanted to say.

It felt like one of those special whispers from Spirit when I came across this quote (above) within moments of taking this picture back out again.

It fit the moment in time perfectly for me.

Maybe it is all about the timing…

 

Cricket Walker

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When I Was A Kid

When I was young, my granddaddy would tell me stories about the “good old days” and how kids these days didn’t have the sense God gave a goose. Of course, he also loved to tell me how he used to walk 20 miles to school, uphill both ways, and barefoot.

Every once in a while he would add a few feet of snow into the memory.

I would sit there giggling at him, loving his stories, dreaming of a simpler life, and how wonderful it was to know him. I also secretly thought about how all old people told these same stories, but I never got weary of listening.

Guess what slipped right out of my mouth today?

“When I was a kid…”

Lord help me, did I really say that?

When did I become one of the old people?

Sighs…

In my defense, I didn’t bring up walking to school a million miles (or so) each way. Probably because I didn’t. A bus picked me up about a block or so from my front door. We did however whine about how long we were stuck on that dang bus. (grin)

I was just thinking of a time when life was a bit more simple when we didn’t have cell phones, computer games, and laptops to occupy our time. Amazingly enough, though, we were never bored. We spent hours playing neighborhood games of kickball. If we didn’t have a ball, we played kick the can.

We rode our bikes for miles down trails and jumps we made ourselves.

We didn’t have fancy backyard gym sets, but we knew if we had a nearby creek and a rope, we could spend entire days on that rope swing laughing until our sides ached.

Life was just simpler I think.

When I was a kid…

 

Cricket Walker