tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post4921355677075298332..comments2023-10-29T03:37:26.327-07:00Comments on All the Birds of This Day: Letting Be Strong.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13972154757243202192noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-78601459722671343962013-01-22T21:38:17.877-08:002013-01-22T21:38:17.877-08:00I needed to read that. Thank you, Ash.I needed to read that. Thank you, Ash.A student midwifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15691609760762514405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-90678024066653459452013-01-20T18:54:06.065-08:002013-01-20T18:54:06.065-08:00you are lovely. this is lovely. thank you.you are lovely. this is lovely. thank you.Dejahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18116049968601456512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-12997947313228958992012-12-10T19:30:19.808-08:002012-12-10T19:30:19.808-08:00That last paragraph especially remind me of one of...That last paragraph especially remind me of one of my favorite essays by Rilke on love in which he describes true, deep, hard love to be a mutual guardianship of one anothers solitude. We need to be given the space and protection to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling before the Lord. Thanks for reminding me of this wondrous gift ash. i love you.zlbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16307158347828561538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-91667128911873161892012-12-05T21:46:24.680-08:002012-12-05T21:46:24.680-08:00Too often, I feel that I am not reaching my potent...Too often, I feel that I am not reaching my potential. Because our culture does, indeed, look down on suffering as something negative, not purifying, It is sacred, like you say. Even though much of the world's suffering is not known in depth by me personally. I know that I would much rather be afflicted and grateful, than non-challenged with less personal growth. <br /><br />Thank you for speaking for those of us who feel this same emotion. Well put.Sofia Hoilandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589224616889027907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-69363583698425910102012-12-04T17:01:07.314-08:002012-12-04T17:01:07.314-08:00Wow, thank you for ths. I have to do something rea...Wow, thank you for ths. I have to do something really hard tomorrow, which may or may not turn out good and this was such a good reminder. Thank you. And i love the idea of a super mom swooping down, some days that would be nice. But in the long run you are right that what we struggle through brings us the greatest joy.Heather@Women in the Scriptureshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13840219710920268885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-65322546779421785312012-12-04T12:20:27.001-08:002012-12-04T12:20:27.001-08:00I love this Ashley. I know that I try to minimize ...I love this Ashley. I know that I try to minimize my (considerable) problems to make others feel better, which is most likely not helpful for either party. In my moments of deepest grief and pain all I can think is, "This is so hard." I wish I were brave enough to communicate that to others more often, to give them space to feel the difficulty of their own trials and problems.Rachel (and Will)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13603063416980653082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-5786734027874224852012-12-01T09:43:01.014-08:002012-12-01T09:43:01.014-08:00I miss you so much, especially right now. So much ...I miss you so much, especially right now. So much so, that I have tears in my eyes. I love you, my dear Ash. sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02941721869443936382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-9464977046944655372012-11-30T13:36:02.521-08:002012-11-30T13:36:02.521-08:00"Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, ..."Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you? ... You do know that you are in a period of transition and wish for nothing as much as to transform yourself. If some aspect of your life is not well, then consider the illness to be the means for an organism to free itself from something foreign to it. In that case you must help it to be ill and to have its whole illness, to let it break out. That is the course of its progress." Rainer Maria Rilke, The Eighth Letter - Letters to a Young PoetPhilliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00769105850952174522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-76166628320237304632012-11-30T12:13:42.491-08:002012-11-30T12:13:42.491-08:00I am a fixer, too, which takes its toll. Thank you...I am a fixer, too, which takes its toll. Thank you for this post, and for helping me to see the importance of letting go a little bit, and embracing hardships.Alliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078641281130561797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1476570074323535641.post-13645571669352200032012-11-30T07:38:39.371-08:002012-11-30T07:38:39.371-08:00I love you. You are the dearest person. Thank yo...I love you. You are the dearest person. Thank you for sharing this and more than that, BEING this. I'm so glad we are friends - I can't say that enough. I miss you. <br /><br />When we were in DC I thought I was pregnant a few times. I was, of course, thrilled after so many years of wanting to start our family, but there was also a little sadness that my...well, my pain and my loss would just vanish. It was awful and I hated it, but it was also purifying and something intensley personal that only I could work through. Sacred, as you wrote. I'm not jazzed that I turned out not to be pregnant, but it was really valuable for me to put an x on what suffring brings to us. <br /><br />See you soon?Brooke S. https://www.blogger.com/profile/12495668558037672507noreply@blogger.com