Comments on: FlyLady Friday: The Itchy Tag http://heatherivester.com/2005/12/16/fly-lady-friday-the-itchy-tag/ Encouragement for writing parents and for anyone who loves inspiring books for kids Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:56:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heather http://heatherivester.com/2005/12/16/fly-lady-friday-the-itchy-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Heather Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:34:08 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=140#comment-64 The Seven Sevens! It will take me a while to think about these. I like reading other people's, but I'm not sure what I'd write. Thanks for that inspiring quote by Sheldon Vanauken. I do feel like the clock is my enemy most of the time. To be perfectly honest, the hectic pace of life in the U.S. really gets to me -- and I sometimes imagine how fun it would be to take our family off to a third world island -- and spend hours sitting by the sea, watching the sun rise and set, memorizing David's psalms. Instead, I set my timer...and write in a blog. The Seven Sevens! It will take me a while to think about these. I like reading other people’s, but I’m not sure what I’d write.

Thanks for that inspiring quote by Sheldon Vanauken. I do feel like the clock is my enemy most of the time. To be perfectly honest, the hectic pace of life in the U.S. really gets to me — and I sometimes imagine how fun it would be to take our family off to a third world island — and spend hours sitting by the sea, watching the sun rise and set, memorizing David’s psalms. Instead, I set my timer…and write in a blog.

]]> By: Carmen Rockett http://heatherivester.com/2005/12/16/fly-lady-friday-the-itchy-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Carmen Rockett Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:13:53 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=140#comment-63 I'm tagging you for the Seven Sevens meme - just go to my blog at www.mywordwrites.blogspot.com and copy and paste the questions to your blog. Replace my answers with yours. Blessings. Carmen I’m tagging you for the Seven Sevens meme – just go to my blog at http://www.mywordwrites.blogspot.com and copy and paste the questions to your blog. Replace my answers with yours. Blessings.

Carmen

]]> By: Michael http://heatherivester.com/2005/12/16/fly-lady-friday-the-itchy-tag/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Michael Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:34:15 +0000 http://mom2momconnection.com/?p=140#comment-62 "If, indeed, we all have a kind of appetite for eternity, we have allowed ourselves to be caught up in a society that frustrates our longing at every turn. Half our inventions are advertised to save time -- the washing machine, the fast car, the jet flight -- but for what? Never were people more harried by time: by watches, by buzzers, by time clocks, by precise schedules... "If we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest? It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity. Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at -- how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. We aren't adapted to it, nor at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home." -Sheldon Vanauken “If, indeed, we all have a kind of appetite for eternity, we have allowed ourselves to be caught up in a society that frustrates our longing at every turn. Half our inventions are advertised to save time — the washing machine, the fast car, the jet flight — but for what? Never were people more harried by time: by watches, by buzzers, by time clocks, by precise schedules…

“If we complain of time and take such joy in the seemingly timeless moment, what does that suggest? It suggests that we have not always been or will not always be purely temporal creatures. It suggests that we were created for eternity. Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at — how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. We aren’t adapted to it, nor at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.”

-Sheldon Vanauken

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