Comments on: To create in the desert http://www.ronnadetrick.com/to-create-in-the-desert/ Writer & Speaker Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: stroke the face of suffering | Cleavage by Kelly Diels. http://www.ronnadetrick.com/to-create-in-the-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-4828 stroke the face of suffering | Cleavage by Kelly Diels. Fri, 06 May 2011 19:18:28 +0000 http://www.ronnadetrick.com/?p=2822#comment-4828 [...] joy. Susan Piver speaks from the wisdom of a broken heart; Ronna Detrick writes about drinking deeply in the desert of despair; and Anita Rogers…well, just watch and be [...] [...] joy. Susan Piver speaks from the wisdom of a broken heart; Ronna Detrick writes about drinking deeply in the desert of despair; and Anita Rogers…well, just watch and be [...]

]]> By: coming to terms with our grips http://www.ronnadetrick.com/to-create-in-the-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-1548 coming to terms with our grips Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:04:37 +0000 http://www.ronnadetrick.com/?p=2822#comment-1548 [...] they’ve met online, women who have been and who have found breadcrumbs leading to a forest (or desert) of women ready and willing to bear witness, encourage, cajole, [...] [...] they’ve met online, women who have been and who have found breadcrumbs leading to a forest (or desert) of women ready and willing to bear witness, encourage, cajole, [...]

]]> By: Ronna Detrick http://www.ronnadetrick.com/to-create-in-the-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 Ronna Detrick Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:57:22 +0000 http://www.ronnadetrick.com/?p=2822#comment-1529 OK...I just want to read paragraph #3 over and over again - for myself and to make sure that it's truth and beauty is cemented in the universe as happening for you! SO powerful, Lauren. I cannot imagine being able to articulate such at 31...now at 49...and am SO grateful on your behalf - and for your presence here. Thank you! OK…I just want to read paragraph #3 over and over again – for myself and to make sure that it’s truth and beauty is cemented in the universe as happening for you! SO powerful, Lauren. I cannot imagine being able to articulate such at 31…now at 49…and am SO grateful on your behalf – and for your presence here. Thank you!

]]> By: lauren martin gauthier http://www.ronnadetrick.com/to-create-in-the-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 lauren martin gauthier Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:39:20 +0000 http://www.ronnadetrick.com/?p=2822#comment-1526 "...an intense drive to articulate something of personal import whether understood and accepted or not. Ultimately, it is less about the “end product” or how it is received, and more about the process of expression itself." Yes, yes and yes! I think it has been a HUGE step for me to realize that the means and the end do not have to be connected. I do not need a guarantee of acceptance and approval before I can unleash my message into the world. What a freeing discovery that has been! 1. My initial response has often been a sort of resignation. By that I mean, I've resigned myself to the fact that the desert will certainly always be a part of my personal landscape, as I seem to be someone who feels everything deeply, questions everything thoroughly, and makes a sport of excessive introspection. The sum total of those parts seems to be that I spend large doses of time in desert places. I have more than once told my husband that I wished I could give up my perceptive and inquisitive nature, in favor of a less troubled mind/life. But really, if I dig deep down inside of myself, that's not true. Because the *beauty* that blossoms out of living lots of seasons in the dessert, is that I have much to offer to others who hurt. And really, wasn't the ministry of Jesus Himself all about touching the infirm, the wounded, and the hurting? 2. Yes. 'nuff said. And it is only *now* (one the verge of 31 years old) that I have tapped the inner strength that allows me to be content, even THRILLED, with that status. Or lack thereof ;) 3. YES! It's not merely possible, it's guaranteed. The wild beauty I am becoming is uninhibited. Unafraid. She dances with abandon and sings at the top of her lungs. IN PUBLIC. She struts her stuff shamelessly. She doesn't hesitate to speak- of joy or pain, of her weaknesses OR her fantastic and unique strengths! She is just as proud to be sexy as she is to be spiritual. She is thoughtful and tolerant, patient and unapologetic, meditative and irreverent. She is *both* strikingly gentle and breathtaking in her strength, and knows you can have it both ways. She is filled up to overflowing, and holds it all with the generosity of open hands. And she impacts both those who are unafraid to listen, AND those who have been scared shitless, but are ready and willing to slowly shed their timidness in exchange for a rich and rewarding new way of life!!! .-= lauren martin gauthier´s last blog ..<a href="http://somethingglorious.blogspot.com/2010/02/sunday-slices-of-life-morning-frenzy.html">Sunday</a> =-. “…an intense drive to articulate something of personal import whether understood and accepted or not. Ultimately, it is less about the “end product” or how it is received, and more about the process of expression itself.”

Yes, yes and yes! I think it has been a HUGE step for me to realize that the means and the end do not have to be connected. I do not need a guarantee of acceptance and approval before I can unleash my message into the world. What a freeing discovery that has been!

1. My initial response has often been a sort of resignation. By that I mean, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that the desert will certainly always be a part of my personal landscape, as I seem to be someone who feels everything deeply, questions everything thoroughly, and makes a sport of excessive introspection. The sum total of those parts seems to be that I spend large doses of time in desert places. I have more than once told my husband that I wished I could give up my perceptive and inquisitive nature, in favor of a less troubled mind/life. But really, if I dig deep down inside of myself, that’s not true. Because the *beauty* that blossoms out of living lots of seasons in the dessert, is that I have much to offer to others who hurt. And really, wasn’t the ministry of Jesus Himself all about touching the infirm, the wounded, and the hurting?

2. Yes. ’nuff said. And it is only *now* (one the verge of 31 years old) that I have tapped the inner strength that allows me to be content, even THRILLED, with that status. Or lack thereof ;)

3. YES! It’s not merely possible, it’s guaranteed. The wild beauty I am becoming is uninhibited. Unafraid. She dances with abandon and sings at the top of her lungs. IN PUBLIC. She struts her stuff shamelessly. She doesn’t hesitate to speak- of joy or pain, of her weaknesses OR her fantastic and unique strengths! She is just as proud to be sexy as she is to be spiritual. She is thoughtful and tolerant, patient and unapologetic, meditative and irreverent. She is *both* strikingly gentle and breathtaking in her strength, and knows you can have it both ways. She is filled up to overflowing, and holds it all with the generosity of open hands. And she impacts both those who are unafraid to listen, AND those who have been scared shitless, but are ready and willing to slowly shed their timidness in exchange for a rich and rewarding new way of life!!!
.-= lauren martin gauthier´s last blog ..Sunday =-.

]]> By: Ronna Detrick http://www.ronnadetrick.com/to-create-in-the-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-1480 Ronna Detrick Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:21:43 +0000 http://www.ronnadetrick.com/?p=2822#comment-1480 Thanks, Heather. I love Buechner! And love this: "what it means to be (our)selves." Indeed - the question of Lent and always. Thanks, Heather. I love Buechner! And love this: “what it means to be (our)selves.” Indeed – the question of Lent and always.

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