Jennerosity Sonar: Diving in

Dove into some good reading today while at the pool,

and since lil miss insomniac is up anyway, thought i'd share

a few of the nuggets i found.

(besides, just copying someone else's work requires almost zero thinking on my part, and the mundane task of typing may lull me back to sleep!)

so here goes:

(quoting Nicole Braddock Bromley here..)

"Ironically, moving forward in life entails looking back....processing what's taken place in the past in order to improve the outcome of the future."

(re: the passage in 1 Samuel 1, where depressed Hannah goes in to the tabernacle to pray..and Eli says,"Must you come here drunk?" (v.14)

"When Eli made a false assumption about Hannah, he responded to her tearful prayer by condemning her instead of ministering to her....Our human nature leads us to respond as Eli did. We're much quicker to conclude that people who seem different or in distress are messed-up losers than we are to reach out in love to find out what the real issue is with them. Instead of assuming anything about people, we need to communicate with them...not just the superficial "how are you?" "good.how about you? kind of stuff. We have to communicate in a way that reveals our heart and allows others to reveal theirs. Yet, for (some of us), such communication can be extrememly difficult."

"Even though we may have strong feelings of affection or friendship, we're afraid of what letting down our guard will do, so we prefer to run. We distance ourselves in order to protect ourselves from being hurt again."

"We have feeling in our skin for a reason, and part of that reason, I believe, is to feel loved through safe and warm touch. Touch can dramatically change a person's outlook on life."