Friday, April 29, 2011

Singing from the Rooftops (A Five Minute Post)

Lisa-Jo asks me tonight, as I sit in between warm blankets, what I would do if I knew I could... (blog with us for Five Minute Fridays?).

I would shower the world with words. I would sing them from the rooftops in Orvieto where my laundry would fly in the harsh morning light. I would whisper them into the coffee cups piled in my sink, those silent witnesses of love and laughter. I would shout LOVE across the Quad to the girls I don't know but I see walking dejectedly back to their dorms, burdened with work, with questions, with hope and desperation and doubt.

I would coax words out of my heart and out of other people's. I would write stories that used luminescence  and dazzle and flame as though they were the best words in the world and I couldn't wait to share them with someone.

I would pray the prayers that I don't let myself pray. The big ones full of hope and full of child certainty, the prayers that tell God I know who He is and what He can do. The prayers that ask for total healing and redemption and look into the face of the Healer, the Peacemaker, the Storm-Calmer, so sure that He is who He is that I ask the big box of prayers for the world. I would pray to become full of His love. I would pray to overflow with it. To be spent with it. To be exhausted from loving.

I would sing from the rooftops and I would laugh so hard that I doubled over and I would lift both hands to the sky in the kind of reckless gratitude that just might awaken my heart.

Love,
Hilary



20 comments:

  1. I always wonder who'll be first and it's almost always you! How do you do it? Spin such colorful beautiful words so fast and true. Wonderful, as always sweet Hilary!

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  2. Love your Five Minute Friday post! Thank you for it...your words blessed me and inspired me!

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  3. Dude! Your word verification *kills* me! Did you not read my post, eh? ;)

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  4. Well... YOU inspired this post about words because YOU write them so beautiful and true, and you teach me how! And the only reason I can manage to be first is because the life of the college student is late nights and desperate five minute breaks from reading...

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  5. Wow! I absolutely love your 5 minutes of writing today...beautiful!

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  6. beautiful words and i love that it's about words!

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  7. To be spent with it. To be exhausted from loving.

    YES! Ohhh, I need this too!

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  8. Your "best" words are awesome. Love it! With Joy, Carey

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  9. Beautiful!

    "I would pray the prayers that I don't let myself pray." Bulls-eye! I'm thinking I'll be mulling that over this weekend.

    Thanks so much for sharing. I'm praying for you - and for those dejected girls walking across the quad - tonight :)

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  10. None of that sounds too lofty. Beautifully written. Keep on keeping on. Your location, alone, inspires me, as I'm looking forward to a visit with my sister in Gloucester in just a short couple of months. Yay!!! :-)

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  11. First, your words are a balm. They are so well put together. Little puzzle pieces of vocabulary connected to the bigger picture.

    I'm a new follower- starting today. Oh and you know what the best part of this post is? The fact that you already have said those prayers to God. Those thoughts, words, feelings, are imprinted on your heart. He hears all, sees all, feels all. What a glorious song that we all weave with our souls. To be instruments of His song!

    Alita

    Ps. thank you for sharing!

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  12. "luminescence and dazzle and flame" --do it. We need literature with these words!

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  13. What wonderful, wonderful words you all write! Thank you! Alita, it's lovely to meet you over here (you're welcome any time!). And yes, I'm going to try and write the beautiful words into whatever I write (here is to the word luminescence!)

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  14. "I would coax words out of my heart and out of other people's," Can I just sit at your feet and have you teach me to write words that pull at hearts like yours do? I look forward to coming here every Friday and soaking it all up!

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  15. Agreed. Your five minute posts are always lovely. Thank you for sharing your beautiful heart in illuminating words.

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  16. I love how you list a "few" of the words that you want to use....you are making me rekindle my love of words and meanings and usage....ahhh...lovely!

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  17. Hilary, you ARE Ann of Green Gables. At least to me you are, at lest in this post you are.

    So full of hope, bursting with life. And of course love.

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  18. Dawn - thank you. That comment made my whole day.

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