THE SATURDAY EVENING BLOG POST, vol.4, issue 7

Posted on July 7, 2012 by elizabeth

Welcome to THE SATURDAY EVENING BLOG POST!

This is where bloggers gather on the first Saturday of the month to share their favorite
post from the previous month.
This month we’re sharing posts from June 2012.

I’ll begin by sharing my favorite post. I chose “Spirituality for religiously wounded” because it speaks directly to where I’m at right now. Some wounds go far deeper than we expect and sometimes, the only way to healing is silence and gentleness.

Now it’s your turn! Here’s how to participate:

  1. Choose your favorite post from last month and paste the link to that specific post in the linky form here.
  2. Tweet about this link-up or share on FB. Or you could write a blog post and link back here. The more participants, the merrier!

 

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  • Anonymous

    Elizabeth, I made a mistake.  So sorry.  If possible you can remove my first entry about True Love.  The one about Works of Mercy is what I entered for today.  (The other is one I entered last month.)  Thank you for hosting this event each month.

    I love this part of your post, Elizabeth:

    And since God dwells in silence, I enter silence to find God.
    I have fallen in love with silence because that’s where I am fully
    whole, fully held. When you experience the healing of silence, there is
    no need for explanations, defenses, manifestos, apologetics. We can fill
    our world with limitless words, while forgetting that words have
    limitations.

    In silence I am formed.

    In silence I am healed.

    In silence I am born again.

  • http://twitter.com/AKAJaneRandom Paula Claunch

    Beautiful post. Too often I run from silence and will do much to avoid it. What a great reminder.

  • http://www.fatherhoodetc.com/ David Ozab

    Powerful post—and something we all go through, but not everyone has the courage to say so especially in a public forum.

    I hope you like my favorite post from June. It’s a review of Pixar’s Brave from the perspective of the parent of a young girl. Thanks for reading!

  • Andrew Carmichael

    “Woman Up” — a critique of expressions that ascribe “positive” qualities to masculinity and “negative” ones to femininity.

  • http://arleenspenceley.blogspot.com/ Arleen Spenceley

    So on my blog, late June (and early July) has been dedicated mostly  to topics like sex, love, chastity and marriage. The post I’m sharing is a snippet of what I wrote recently for the newspaper for which I work – an opinion essay called “Why I’m still a virgin at age 26.” Hope everybody enjoys it.

    And thanks, Elizabeth, for letting us link up! :)

  • Allison Grace

    Silence and gentleness ~ I’m heading out for a day to myself and plan to ponder these words (and your whole post, really).  Glad you share yourself, EE.

  • Former Church Fanatic

    Your post touched me.  The spiritually wounded need much time, especially the silence you mentioned  to soak up God’s Love and Mercy while shedding fear and shame. 

  • Dulce de leche

    I always find food for my soul in your posts.  Thank you so much!  My post is on some of the passages that relate to discipline and parenting that often get overlooked.

  • http://teamaidan.wordpress.com/ Heather

    Thanks for the link up. I posted about my marriage and how my husband is NOT romantic, though he does amazingly romantic things for me. He chooses me, with every effort he is falling forward. 

  • http://faithandfood.morizot.net/ Scott Morizot

    I decided to post a link to something different this time, one of my celiac-related posts.

  • http://imagineangie.blogspot.com/ Angela

    Thank you for sharing yourself so freely here. The quote that is the hallmark of my linked-up post is so perfect for you, Elizabeth.

    It’s Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s wisdom: “The most exhausting thing you can do is be inauthentic.” Based on that assessment, you should be one of the most energized people on the planet!

  • Tifanni

    Thanks for hosting EE. I posted some of my kids comical thoughts as our family prepares to move to Haiti.

  • http://twitter.com/ModernMrsDarcy Anne Bogel

    Well, I do like the post you chose, but my personal favorite here was about your shock at discovering you might not be an ENFP after all. I always love your MBTI posts.

  • Anna Caltagirone

    Yay! 

    And oops- I meant to leave my title up there. Oh well. 

    My post is about how being told that motherhood and wifehood were my only purpose in life made me very resentful and unhappy as a SAHM. Now, I’m doing the exact same thing I was before, being a SAHM, but I’m SO much more content in it now that I’m staying at home out of choice, and knowing that it’s only for a short season, not something I’m stuck in for the rest of my life. 

  • http://asihaveloved.blogspot.com/ Olivia Mawhinney

    All linked up! Can’t wait to check out more of the posts above! 

  • Michelle

    So glad I didn’t miss this one this month!  :)   I hadn’t done one of my Catholicism Nerd posts in a while.  Thanks for hosting!

  • Lauren S.

    My post is called Love is an Artist and talks about what God has been teaching me on love and how I had been limiting His.

  • http://faithandfood.morizot.net/ Scott Morizot

    Weird. For some reason my post wasn’t there when I refreshed the page just now. So I added it again. Doing laundry. Wife has to go spend the night with her Dad tomorrow night for a very early doctor’s appointment Monday. And need to make sure her laundry is done. With two movies and lawyer son visiting in between keeping me up late.

  • http://therosarychick.blogspot.com/ Melanie

    Thanks for hosting! Inner healing is a path I have been on for over five years now but I’ve never written about it. I admire your courage. I chose to share my post about how to support a family during miscarriage because of the responses I received after posting it. The list that I wrote with my husband and two oldest children touched people in a deeply personal way who shared the pain of losing a baby.

  • Kelly Dyck

    I posted a blog entry called Naptime Slapdown.  Life has been a bit heavy lately, and I chose this one because I just needed a bit of levity.  Enjoy!

  • Anonymous

    I love this idea, Elizabeth. My favorite post of this past month was The Gratitude Diet because it’s one of the posts I need the most. Talking to myself here. Thanks. 

  • http://www.movingwithGod.com/ Alyssa

    Your post about discovering you’re an introvert reminded me of my own needs as an introvert that I have been accidentally ignoring!

  • http://heretichusband.blogspot.com/ Heretic Husband

    I posted the letter we received from our former church regarding the youth pastor’s divorce, and my thoughts on it.

  • http://www.embracingtheodyssey.com/ @OdysseyMamaC

    My favorite post during June was “Warnings About Adoption Advertising” attempting to bring attention to an absolutely HORRID advertising agency that “prices” children based on race and uses extremely coercive language and practices. 

  • http://www.joshbarkey.com/ josh barkey

    “Until Love Do Us Part” — an exploration of my changing conception of marriage as I continue to process a divorce I didn’t choose, want, or agree to.

  • Anonymous

    “Do You Want to be Well?” is a reflection on the upheaval of the last year in my life, and trying to accept God’s invitation to be transformed and made whole through it. 

  • http://messymiddle.com/ Amy Young

    I left a post about dealing with relational burns — shocking how many there are in the Bible (basically, none of us escape!).

  • crazymom13

    Tammy has a new blog about perinatal loss