Comments on: What to Remember When Waking http://jenschroedel.com/2010/04/what-to-remember-when-waking/ Sun, 06 May 2012 17:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anna J http://jenschroedel.com/2010/04/what-to-remember-when-waking/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Anna J Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:19:47 +0000 http://jenschroedel.com/?p=734#comment-452 Like Amber, I find great relief in the release from planning "control" in this poem. It is timely, as I have just had a week of such frenetic efforts on my part that I finally just stopped and "gave up," remembering that God doesn't need my abilities in order to turn our earth :-) Thanks for sharing this lovely poem, by a poet who is new to me [like so many of the Poetry Wednesday sharings!] Like Amber, I find great relief in the release from planning “control” in this poem. It is timely, as I have just had a week of such frenetic efforts on my part that I finally just stopped and “gave up,” remembering that God doesn’t need my abilities in order to turn our earth :-)
Thanks for sharing this lovely poem, by a poet who is new to me [like so many of the Poetry Wednesday sharings!]

]]> By: Bethany http://jenschroedel.com/2010/04/what-to-remember-when-waking/comment-page-1/#comment-451 Bethany Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:27:42 +0000 http://jenschroedel.com/?p=734#comment-451 Yes. This comfort is just what I needed this morning. "you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just emerged." Reassuring and full. Also, "What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread its branches against a future sky?" - I was talking about death with the boys last night, trying to explain it like this. But it's great to think of the metaphor as taking place before death, right here, too. Yes. This comfort is just what I needed this morning. “you were invited from another and greater night than the one from which you have just emerged.” Reassuring and full. Also, “What shape waits in the seed of you to grow and spread its branches against a future sky?” – I was talking about death with the boys last night, trying to explain it like this. But it’s great to think of the metaphor as taking place before death, right here, too.

]]> By: Kris http://jenschroedel.com/2010/04/what-to-remember-when-waking/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Kris Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:20:26 +0000 http://jenschroedel.com/?p=734#comment-450 The lines about not being and accident, not being a troubled guest were just what I needed to read tonight. And what urgency calls us to our one love? I think that small line will need to be written out so I can look at it repeatedly. The lines about not being and accident, not being a troubled guest were just what I needed to read tonight.

And what urgency calls us to our one love? I think that small line will need to be written out so I can look at it repeatedly.

]]> By: Amber http://jenschroedel.com/2010/04/what-to-remember-when-waking/comment-page-1/#comment-449 Amber Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:01:34 +0000 http://jenschroedel.com/?p=734#comment-449 "What you can plan / is too small for you / to live" What a wonderful relief--I'm such a poor planner that I wouldn't want to have to depend on myself there. I can see why you've fallen for Mr Whyte! Simple and beautiful, and so full at once. Like Beth, a little sad, but sad in the best way ever, the way life is a little sad. The way you living in Hawaii is absolutely wonderful and a little sad in that you are so far away. “What you can plan / is too small for you / to live”
What a wonderful relief–I’m such a poor planner that I wouldn’t want to have to depend on myself there. I can see why you’ve fallen for Mr Whyte! Simple and beautiful, and so full at once. Like Beth, a little sad, but sad in the best way ever, the way life is a little sad. The way you living in Hawaii is absolutely wonderful and a little sad in that you are so far away.

]]> By: Beth Johnson http://jenschroedel.com/2010/04/what-to-remember-when-waking/comment-page-1/#comment-448 Beth Johnson Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:04:58 +0000 http://jenschroedel.com/?p=734#comment-448 Perhaps I am having a sad moment but that poem in all its loveliness and truth makes me want to weep. Weep for the time I waste and weep that I am not an accident or a troubled guest on this earth. Thank you for this post. And also I must thank you again for last week's poem. Could I be so bold to say that applying its sentiments has (at least for one week and hopefully longer) changed my life? Less computer. More children, family, home. Love to you. Perhaps I am having a sad moment but that poem in all its loveliness and truth makes me want to weep. Weep for the time I waste and weep that I am not an accident or a troubled guest on this earth. Thank you for this post. And also I must thank you again for last week’s poem. Could I be so bold to say that applying its sentiments has (at least for one week and hopefully longer) changed my life? Less computer. More children, family, home. Love to you.

]]> By: Molly Sabourin http://jenschroedel.com/2010/04/what-to-remember-when-waking/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Molly Sabourin Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:37:30 +0000 http://jenschroedel.com/?p=734#comment-447 I've never been a night person - in that the nights tend to fill me with dread. Mornings, though, particularly those first quiet moments spent drinking that first cup of coffee, make me feel hopeful and brave again. Yes, it's the planning, I believe, that hinders my ability to carry that hope and courage into the busyness of my afternoons. This poem is profoundly insightful, Jenny. Thank you so much for sharing it! I’ve never been a night person – in that the nights tend to fill me with dread. Mornings, though, particularly those first quiet moments spent drinking that first cup of coffee, make me feel hopeful and brave again. Yes, it’s the planning, I believe, that hinders my ability to carry that hope and courage into the busyness of my afternoons. This poem is profoundly insightful, Jenny. Thank you so much for sharing it!

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