tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20816576240565054692024-02-19T03:29:51.195-08:00The Front PorchLessons From Living In The Moment... Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-71105048727023848652015-03-05T15:08:00.000-08:002015-03-05T15:08:20.753-08:00The Dance....Happy Thursday my friends. A re-post worth reviewing...
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by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Back to The Wisdom Garden
I have sent you my invitation,
The note inscribed on the palm of my hand
By the fire of living.
Don't jump up and shout,
"Yes, this is what I want! Let's do it!"
Just stand up quietly and dance with me.
Show me how you follow your Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-5501592161878705462015-03-02T14:48:00.001-08:002015-03-02T14:48:43.231-08:00Samalamadingdong...
Happy Monday!
There was a time when breakfast in bed meant the start of the week.
Today I am reminded of those early years when my family was working its way back into a place of wholeness. A time when we were learning to live, love and communicate through more than just our words. Mondays always makes me think of Sami, it was her day.
Though Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-46931502075504631632015-02-18T11:06:00.001-08:002015-02-18T11:06:55.244-08:00ME TOO...
Welcome, pull up, have a seat, grab your key board, phone or whatever device you use to communicate via virtual community. Whoever thought that creating an on line Rumpus room could bring the kind of deep connecting and healing that would shift not only the way I see myself but the way I see others?
What started out as a fun place to connect, tell stories and Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-88362663821688894982015-02-17T07:59:00.001-08:002015-02-17T07:59:25.536-08:00"What I Love" Plus 1
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
~Rumi
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<!--[endif]--> Laughing with Tony.
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with my tribe.
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<!--[endif]-->Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-73700723026767834662015-01-29T09:01:00.001-08:002015-01-29T09:01:10.902-08:00Don't Quit
by AnonymousWhen things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about, WhenChaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-88148475802869864052014-12-11T06:00:00.000-08:002014-12-11T06:00:03.471-08:00Great Teachers...
My brother is one of
the greatest teachers I know. He came to
visit me over the holiday and I captured this picture of him on our annual Thanksgiving
run that just happens to come right past our front porch. What makes him such a great teacher is that
he walks the talk. He is not afraid of
the struggle and he has Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-20645028521335372032014-12-10T21:48:00.001-08:002014-12-10T21:48:17.791-08:00Just F--- IT!
Learning to live in the moment with a
chronic condition can be challenging and take every ounce of energy out of
you. Many people are not aware of the fact that I have not just
one but two autoimmune conditions. Why? Because I choose not
to talk about them. I realized years ago that unless I am talking in
regards to being proactively Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-70694587801539751672014-12-06T13:57:00.001-08:002014-12-06T13:57:42.165-08:00Laughing In The Face Of Fibroblahblahblah...
Have
you ever had an experience where your brain tells your body to do one thing and
it does another? Or maybe it ignores you all together. I find it annoying when my body and brain decide not to work together, it puts a kink in my days plans and makes me feel a little like I am losing my mind.
What annoys me even more Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-50439212123973676742014-11-30T17:53:00.000-08:002014-11-30T18:07:49.928-08:00Sometimes...
Sometimes
the holidays make me sad. I do my best to find all the things in my life
to be thankful for. One being this man in the picture. The one I
call my husband, best friend, lover, companion, the list could go on.
Still, sadness takes over and I start thinking about all the holidays of
yesterday. I miss my mom and dad and five brothers and Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-2653426256367039282014-11-18T06:32:00.000-08:002014-11-18T06:32:48.985-08:00Finding Church...
I am reading
it in the morning, afternoon and night. It has become my treat between
activities as well as a great way to start my day. I read in my big blue chair,
in my bed and at the counter in my kitchen. I even read parts of it in the
plane on the way home from Arizona. This book has come at a perfect time in my
life.
A time when
I have felt the dryness of the desert taking Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-20993707989761185072014-11-17T11:40:00.001-08:002014-11-17T11:41:41.334-08:00Act Your Age...
Have you ever heard the saying “act your own age”? I have and I have to
admit, I have used it on my children and have thought about it towards myself and
others. What does that mean anyway, really? Perhaps we say it when are
uncomfortable in our own seriousness.
Yet, youth knows no age.
What I do know is that the more I let go ofChaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-37778226918131091892014-11-06T09:45:00.001-08:002014-11-06T09:48:48.103-08:00If I Only Had Today...
By Hilary Weeks
If I Only Had Today....
It seems like I've watched a million sunsets
And stared at a thousand full moons
Sometimes it feels like I've been here forever
And sometimes it all feels brand new
I could never count the heartbeats
From the day I was born until now
But not a single one goes unnoticed
By him who breathes life in me somehow
But if Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-59500207766755609712014-11-04T08:33:00.000-08:002014-11-04T08:33:16.298-08:00Do What You Like...
Do what you like. Like what you do.
What do you like to do? Me? I like to sit down face to face and share
with a friend. I love a heart to heart conversation. I like it when I feel heard as well as when I
get the opportunity to listen to an authentic conversation. I appreciate authentic relationships where
there is a mutual feeling of Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-817882662848798762014-11-03T08:28:00.001-08:002014-11-03T08:28:44.332-08:00Be A Good One...
Whatever you are, be a good one. I am me, a woman who loves to listen to people
who are transparent, who share their stories authentically and
wholeheartedly. I am a woman who travels
well in a small pack I call my tribe. I
am a woman who has flaws and strengths and I know at the core of who I am it is
when those two areas rub up against each other that I am strongChaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-50164349404726900582014-10-30T09:01:00.000-07:002014-10-30T09:02:21.500-07:00Simplify
Simplify, one of my
favorite words, one of my favorite actions.
Day after day, the accumulation
of making life simple one step at a time adds up. Simplifying gives you the space, mentally,
physically and spiritually to be free to move, do and think outside the box
that the world is trying desperately to keep you in, or maybe more like a
hamster wheel. A Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-60623183537625570982014-10-29T08:09:00.000-07:002014-10-29T08:09:21.342-07:00Happy Feet...
Have you ever had to wait?
What a silly question, I know, it appears
that life is about waiting. In lines,
for turns, to be heard, to heal. The
list of why we wait could go on. Me, my
waiting has been on the healing. Aug. 6
I had surgery on my right foot and today for the first time in almost four
months I have shoesChaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-81227132309259831232014-10-22T16:09:00.003-07:002014-10-22T16:09:56.072-07:00What Matters Most...
Who knew being an Aunt to a twenty year old could be so
fun? Just recently my sister and I were
on the phone talking about one certain truth.
That truth is, we make time for what matters most to us in our
life. This sister is the mother of my
nephew who is here visiting me for the next week. He is an amazing young man whoChaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-89258187854782250832014-10-20T13:33:00.003-07:002014-10-20T13:33:58.673-07:00Preparing My Heart and Head...
Happy Monday my friends. It is hard to believe that we are coming to
the end of the month as well as the year.
How many of you wonder, where did the time go? I am challenging myself to find ways to be
grateful for the areas that cause me the most aggravation. It seems like a great challenge to enter into
the Thanksgiving season, away to prepare my heart and my Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-73508604957163018892014-10-17T15:53:00.000-07:002014-10-17T15:53:16.836-07:00Happy Friday!!!
Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-20777314395888085032014-10-16T09:37:00.000-07:002014-10-16T09:37:18.655-07:00Friends Of The Alley...
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis
Ten steps outside my back gate and down the alley into a
world I was not even expecting. Saying
yes to leaving the life I had known for almost 20years was one ofChaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-6502681059244220962014-10-15T14:05:00.000-07:002014-10-15T14:05:12.953-07:00A Peak Into My Past...
I am blessed with the gift of loving to
write. Years of journal entries I am now
willing to pull out and pour over with my eyes and heart. Here is one from three years ago. It is hard to believe my middle girl has
spread her wings and flown from the nest.
Journal entry June
2011
Dream Big!
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Inside all Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-77648062486152081052014-10-14T10:28:00.000-07:002014-10-14T10:28:14.196-07:00Tight Rope Walker...
Five reasons I choose to stay straddled between the struggle
and the victory.
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->2. <!--[endif]-->It connects me to the hurt, lost and
left behind
<!--[if !supportLists]-->3. &Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-81678381220507261522014-10-13T10:21:00.001-07:002014-10-13T10:21:08.416-07:00A Beautiful Today...
Just for
today, I can count on the miracle of the moment. For this moment I am grateful for the breath
that tells me and the world I am alive.
I am grateful for that man upstairs asleep in our bed, a reminder I am
loved and not alone.
I am Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-87275366454293942092014-10-10T08:35:00.000-07:002014-10-10T08:37:12.494-07:00The Difference Between Religion and Jesus
Jim Palmer
The Difference Between Religion and Jesus:
Religion says it’s about the afterlife.
Jesus says it’s about the herelife.
Religion says hold on till heaven.
Jesus said the Kingdom of God is here now.
Religion says confess your wrongs to God.
Jesus said make amends with those you have hurt.
Religion says judge people who don’t measure up.
Jesus said only those who are perfect can castChaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2081657624056505469.post-80684178513695575892014-10-09T16:52:00.001-07:002014-10-09T16:52:36.727-07:00Humming Birds, Umbrellas and Sunshine...
Welcome to Thursday and to my little piece of heaven on earth. Today I took some time to rest and recover from the last week of having family in town. It is possible to be exhausted from a good experience and this past week was a good experience.
I took a day to soak in the sunshine while sitting in my courtyard thanking God for Chaplain Cris Nolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10705911733588533757noreply@blogger.com0