Perry scaffold pull pin1/26/2024 ![]() Only by braving the storms as a team will you reap the rewards when the sunshine arrives. You should promise each other that you will not be fair weather riders, but venture out together in the wind and the rain. When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.Ĭan I add one that we’re using? Feel free to take it off the comments if this is the wrong place to post, but we found it hard to find a lovely reading that relates to offbeat mountain bikers!įeel free to use: A Marriage Made for TwoĪ successful marriage can learn a lot from bicycle riding. It takes a lifetime to learn another person. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom rather it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent into that love which is not possession, but participation. Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in empty moments.īut ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me who you know, or how you came here. ![]() I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children. It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day, and if you can source your life on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the moon in God's presence. I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore trustworthy. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true yourself It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving, to hide it, fade it, or fix it. If you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed down from fear of further pain. ![]() ![]() I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, It doesn't interest me what planets are square in your moon. I want to know if you will risk looking a fool for love,įor your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing. It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. The Invitation, by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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