Gardons dans nos cœurs la joie de l’amour de Dieu et partageons cette joie de nous aimer les uns les autres, comme il aime chacun de nous.
Mère Teresa
Gardons dans nos cœurs la joie de l’amour de Dieu et partageons cette joie de nous aimer les uns les autres, comme il aime chacun de nous.
Mère Teresa
Quand tout semble aller mal,
Quand notre foi est mise à l’épreuve,
Quand notre coeur est meurti,
Quand notre âme est troublée,
Quand notre esprit est bouillonnant
de questions sans réponses,
Quand notre volonté est en conflit avec nos convictions !
Nous nous en remettons à toi Seigneur,
Toi seul peut mettre la paix, là où il y’a le trouble !
Toi seul peut réconcilier nous avec nous même !
Toi seul peut venir nous guider dans notre qête du Bonheur !
C’est ce que tu réalises tous les jours pour tes enfants
Et je crois qu’aujourd’hui encore tu le feras pour moi !
Je veux le vivre car tu m’as créé pour le Bonheur
et je veux vivre ce Bonheur avec Toi.
Merci Seigneur !!
Cinthia A
« We must not transform our marriages for the sake of the
marriage. We must embrace the truth that marriage is
always intended to point beyond itself. We must decide that
marriage is not an end, but a means to an end.
Marriage is never meant to be the place where we are finally
satisfied. Marriage is meant to be the beginning of an
insurrection. An uprising on a global scale.
I think marriage is intended to be a rebel training ground, an
institution that undermines all others. I think marriage is
meant to be a redemptive event through which the broken
systems of our world are turned upside down. I think
marriage teaches us to live in radically counter-cultural ways,
because this broken crumbling world cannot be healed by
anything less than a radical, crazy love.
In a hyper-competitive world, our sacrifice is rebellion. In a
world of instant gratification and whimsical exchangeability,
our commitment is rebellion. In a world of strength and
might and power, our vulnerability is rebellion. In a divisive
and condemning world, our unity is rebellion. In an isolated
and fractured world, our companionship is rebellion. In a
world obsessed with certainty and safety, to live in mystery
with hearts ruptured by wonder is rebellion. In a world of
compulsive progress and dissatisfaction, our gratitude is
rebellion. In a world seeking comfort and pleasure, our
compassion is rebellion.«
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/4cda1dd6bdbe32fbb39b12ba2/files/The_Marriage_Manifesto.pdf
http://drkellyflanagan.com/2013/04/17/a-daddys-letter-to-his-little-girl-about-her-future-husband/
en français : http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/kelly-m-flanagan/lettre-pere-fille_b_3206105.html
Dear Cutie-Pie,
Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.”
It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior.
And I got angry.
Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”
Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakeable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.)
If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the word: you will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all of his interest in you.
Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because he knows you are interesting:
I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking.
I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you.
I don’t care if he doesn’t follow his wallet—as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you.
I don’t care if he is strong—as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart.
I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart.
I don’t care about the color of his skin—as long as he paints the canvas of your lives with brushstrokes of patience, and sacrifice, and vulnerability, and tenderness.
I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no religion—as long as he was raised to value the sacred and to know every moment of life, and every moment of life with you, is deeply sacred.
In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that and he and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important thing in common:
You.
Because in the end, Little One, the only thing you should have to do to “keep him interested” is to be you.
Your eternally interested guy,
Daddy
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This post is, of course, dedicated to my daughter, my Cutie-Pie. But I also want to dedicate it beyond her.
I wrote it for my wife, who has courageously held on to her sense of worth and has always held me accountable to being that kind of “boy.”
I wrote it for every grown woman I have met inside and outside of my therapy office—the women who have never known this voice of a Daddy.
And I wrote it for the generation of boys-becoming-men who need to be reminded of what is really important—my little girl finding a loving, lifelong companion is dependent upon at least one of you figuring this out. I’m praying for you.
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Choisis tes rêves : Mais pas sur les étagères d’un rayon de supermarché. Trouve ce lieu de tranquillité en toi, un vrai rêve y est planté. Découvre ce que tu veux faire dans ce monde et une fois que tu le sais, poursuis ce rêve avec fidélité, intégrité et espoir.
Infaillible : Puisses-tu constamment et infailliblement être consciente que l’infaillibilité n’existe pas. C’est une illusion créée par des personnes attirées par ton porte-monnaie. Si tu préfères rechercher la perfection, qu’il s’agisse d’une grâce infaillible, pour toi et pour tous ceux qui t’entourent.
Prête l’oreille, arrête-toi et considère les merveilles de Dieu.
Jb,37,14
La prière vous ouvre le coeur, jusqu’à ce qu’il soit capable de contenir Dieu lui-même.
Mère Teresa.
Dieu qui nous aimes, quand une épreuve semble pesante, tu la portes avec nous, et tu nous donnes d’espérer au-delà de toute espérance.
❤ !