Comments on: Honor, opening volley http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/01/14/honor-opening-volley/ Writing, reading, walking Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:53:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Barbara http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/01/14/honor-opening-volley/comment-page-1/#comment-2994 Barbara Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:31:20 +0000 http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/?p=241#comment-2994 Integrity is definitely a part of honor. Another Big Word Rosie, great take on honoring the body in order to do the work that needs to be done. Yes. Margaritas can be part of honoring the body. :) Denise, I think you would love the L'Engle book. Integrity is definitely a part of honor. Another Big Word

Rosie, great take on honoring the body in order to do the work that needs to be done. Yes.

Margaritas can be part of honoring the body. :)

Denise, I think you would love the L’Engle book.

]]> By: Denise http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/01/14/honor-opening-volley/comment-page-1/#comment-2993 Denise Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:23:12 +0000 http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/?p=241#comment-2993 Barbara, what a thoughtful post and thoughtful responses. Honor is not the easy path, is it? Honoring yourself, honoring God... require self-sacrifice and self-discipline and self-restraint ( resisting temptation) today, in order to have a better tomorrow. I definitely need to focus on Honor this year. I have put the L'Engle quote and your responding thought in my inspiration journal and on my wall. "If you don't do your work, it might not ever get done." "Do what is yours to be done." Simple, clear, straightforward, and like a powerful sword, the idea carries both redemption and crusade. If you do your work, it then goes into the world to heal or inspire or quiet or amuse or breathe life or excite or express. If you do it, things heal, get better. If you don't, the work goes unfinished, the holes remain, the ache stays aching. Barbara, what a thoughtful post and thoughtful responses.
Honor is not the easy path, is it? Honoring yourself, honoring God… require self-sacrifice and self-discipline and self-restraint ( resisting temptation) today, in order to have a better tomorrow. I definitely need to focus on Honor this year.
I have put the L’Engle quote and your responding thought in my inspiration journal and on my wall. “If you don’t do your work, it might not ever get done.”
“Do what is yours to be done.” Simple, clear, straightforward, and like a powerful sword, the idea carries both redemption and crusade. If you do your work, it then goes into the world to heal or inspire or quiet or amuse or breathe life or excite or express. If you do it, things heal, get better. If you don’t, the work goes unfinished, the holes remain, the ache stays aching.

]]> By: Gabrielle http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/01/14/honor-opening-volley/comment-page-1/#comment-2992 Gabrielle Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:39:39 +0000 http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/?p=241#comment-2992 Wonderful, wonderful post, Barbara. And I agree with you about the glee taken--I don't understand the whole "woo-hoo!!" factor of this. Plagiarism is an ugly, ugly thing for all involved, and people on both sides pay for it for a long time to come. I also agree with Rosie, that this year I will honor my health (though not while we're having margaritas in SF, right, Rosie?!). I will honor my work, both what I'm paid for and what I'm yet to be paid for. Self-respect--and respect for others. Though I guess without the first, you can't have the second. I certainly think that's a challenge facing a lot of people these days, what with all the self-destructive behavior we're seeing reported. I think concentrating on your own work to be done is helpful in many ways: 1. you feel better about meeting your obligations; 2. you don't have the energy to go messing in anyone else's business; and 3. your owrk might just be an inspiration to others. Happy new year! Wonderful, wonderful post, Barbara. And I agree with you about the glee taken–I don’t understand the whole “woo-hoo!!” factor of this. Plagiarism is an ugly, ugly thing for all involved, and people on both sides pay for it for a long time to come.

I also agree with Rosie, that this year I will honor my health (though not while we’re having margaritas in SF, right, Rosie?!). I will honor my work, both what I’m paid for and what I’m yet to be paid for.

Self-respect–and respect for others. Though I guess without the first, you can’t have the second. I certainly think that’s a challenge facing a lot of people these days, what with all the self-destructive behavior we’re seeing reported. I think concentrating on your own work to be done is helpful in many ways: 1. you feel better about meeting your obligations; 2. you don’t have the energy to go messing in anyone else’s business; and 3. your owrk might just be an inspiration to others.

Happy new year!

]]> By: Rosie http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/01/14/honor-opening-volley/comment-page-1/#comment-2991 Rosie Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:47:57 +0000 http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/?p=241#comment-2991 Honor is a huge word for me because I always tie it to integrity. So you've given me lots to think about here. I love your pastor's quote,"Do what is yours to be done." Starting last year and continuing into this one my goal has been to honor the vessel I've been given. A healthy body is such a gift that we often take for granted. I'm working to honor mine by putting nutritious food in it, giving it a good night's rest and stretching the mind and the body with exercise and meditation. Now you've given me something to add to this. By honoring the vessel I can truly be capable of doing what is mine to be done. Like I said, lots to think about. Honor is a huge word for me because I always tie it to integrity. So you’ve given me lots to think about here. I love your pastor’s quote,”Do what is yours to be done.”

Starting last year and continuing into this one my goal has been to honor the vessel I’ve been given. A healthy body is such a gift that we often take for granted. I’m working to honor mine by putting nutritious food in it, giving it a good night’s rest and stretching the mind and the body with exercise and meditation.

Now you’ve given me something to add to this. By honoring the vessel I can truly be capable of doing what is mine to be done.

Like I said, lots to think about.

]]> By: Scarlet Hernandez http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/2008/01/14/honor-opening-volley/comment-page-1/#comment-2990 Scarlet Hernandez Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:57:10 +0000 http://www.barbarasamuel.com/blog/?p=241#comment-2990 Thank you, once again, for making me think and think deeply, not superficially, not shallowly. Honor is a Big Word and a Big Thought and worthy of a year of contemplation surely. Thank you, once again, for making me think and think deeply, not superficially, not shallowly. Honor is a Big Word and a Big Thought and worthy of a year of contemplation surely.

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