Comments on: RIP Buttercup Duck! On Accepting Your Actual Life https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/30/rip-buttercup-duck-and-accepting-your-actual-life/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 02 Feb 2016 17:56:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/30/rip-buttercup-duck-and-accepting-your-actual-life/#comment-19181 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:25:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=41759#comment-19181 In reply to Angela M. Shupe.

Thanks so much, Angela!

]]> By: Angela M. Shupe https://anitamathias.com/2013/01/30/rip-buttercup-duck-and-accepting-your-actual-life/#comment-19180 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:41:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/?p=41759#comment-19180 Hi Anita. I’m so sorry about your ducks. We live in the country, too and living among the wildlife is both beautiful and raw, at times. 

I really enjoyed this post. You beautifully illustrated the idea of how we tend to look at the “unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life,” when all along they a part of the life God’s given us to live. What a great quote from CS Lewis! 

It’s an odd thing to realize that life is a mosaic of what we view as the good and the bad, the beautiful and the wretched. I think we learn to appreciate the “good” even more, because we experience the “bad.” Thanks for this!

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