SABBATH SNAPSHOT: ap-TEA-tude

2/2/14 Aptitude is a defining word for gift. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

certainly showed her ap-TEA-tude for writing in Gift From the Sea. (1955) So much so, that after receiving the book as a gift from dear friend, college chum & Pi Phi sister, Maureen Kinney, I read it every January for over 30 years. After she died, not so much. Reading it nowadays is like a memorial to her and our friendship.

Though not necessarily spiritual, her words offer wisdom that I can view from a godly platform.
Here are some treasured words:

I want to be at peace with myself....I want....to live "in grace"....(p.23)

Art of being alone is a difficult lesson...but once done....incredibly precious. (p. 42)

to be the still axis within the revolving wheel of relationships, obligations, and activities. (p. 51)

World's false values: 

• weighed in quantity, not quality; 
• in speed, not stillness; 
• in words, not in thoughts; 
• in acquisitive, not beauty (p.119)

Gifts Pre-cepts or Signposts toward another way of living: 

• Simplicity....to retain a true awareness of life; 
• Balance of physical, intellectual and spiritual;  
• Work without pressure; 
• Space for significance and beauty; 
• Time for solitude and sharing; ....a life of human relationships. (p.120)

128 pages of Morrow's ap-TEA-tude.