Miriam Pauline’s Monologue

She’s an Amer­i­can liv­ing in Europe who home­schools her two young daugh­ters, Jewel and Flower. She is also a cross-stitcher, “wannabe writer, reader, reflec­tor, teacher and lover of Scrip­tures,” in addi­tion to being a quil­ter. After read­ing only a few of her posts, it is evi­dent that her moniker, “The Piece-Maker,” is a dou­ble enten­dre. Miriam Pauline’s writ­ing reflects that she is a gen­tle spirit, a seeker of truth for whom the faith about which she writes reg­u­larly and hon­estly is the cen­tral theme of her life.

So it was dif­fi­cult to pick just one post upon which to bestow the Post of the Day Award. Vir­tu­ally any selec­tion from Miriam Pauline’s Mono­logue: Ran­dom thoughts of a woman seek­ing to piece together what God is teach­ing her is wor­thy of recognition.

But the post that most res­onated with me long after I closed the browser win­dow and went on my way was Mea­sure Words.

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly end­less.“
~Mother Theresa~

Based upon the words of Mother Theresa, Miriam Pauline pierced my con­scious­ness with three sim­ple words that have stayed with me in the six months since she pub­lished the post: “Mea­sure … Sift … Speak.”

And in a straight-forward, but decep­tively pro­found man­ner that is char­ac­ter­is­tic of her writ­ing, Miriam Pauline’s obser­va­tions are dis­tin­guish­able among the melody-less cacoph­ony that the blo­gos­phere, in par­tic­u­lar, and more gen­er­ally, the Inter­net, seem all too often to be.

Con­grat­u­la­tions, Miriam Pauline.

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