Life is ______
People have a tendency to summarize/simplify life this way. Life is _____
The "blank" here can be any of the following: good, bad, hard, tough, easy, sad, complicated, simple, etc
But Life isn't all that simple is it? Can one truly summarize life in this way??? I think not. Life is...an incredibly complex and paradoxical equation of existence. All that is was and will be has and affect on this thing we call "Life." Sometimes, one might find themselves with too much going on or too much to process and their minds get backed up.
Imagine this: an old woman sits at a weaving machine. She has been working on an elaborate cloth and is working endlessly to create this beautiful masterpiece. Each thread, however, must line up perfectly or else it will come out wrong or fall apart. After sometime of work the woman leaves, and while she is gone someone comes along a cruelly begins to mess with the threads and shifts them around, and even breaks a few of them off.
The woman returns and gets back to work, she begins to realize that something isn't right. She must now make a decision. She can either ignore it and continue working, or she can back track her work and then take the time to fix that which was messed up.
For us, the choice seems obvious. Stop, back up, and fix. This is the only way that it will come out right and it is the only way to salvage her work. Why would she do otherwise? I mean, it is frustrating to have to back up and do all that work, but isn't it worth it? Of course it's worth it.
And yet this is how we often treat life when things get tangled. We keep trucking on and ignore the disruption, the tampering, and the misplaced. Instead of seeking help or taking the time to try and realign our thoughts, priorities, and emotions we act as if nothing happened and keep going, the problems becoming more and more apparent the further down the road we go.
I have done my fair share of this myself, and right now I'm finding myself in need of retreat, to get away from it all to refocus and to clear my thoughts; to prioritize and to start fresh. At the moment I find my desire to get away something that I cannot fulfill in the way that I desire to do it, but until I can I must make a conscious effort to do small things at home to begin the process.
Way that I plan on doing this are through various spiritual disciplines such as :
Soon I hope to be able to retreat to a place of prayer and solitude to complete this process that I have begun.
Peace be with you,
Stephen
People have a tendency to summarize/simplify life this way. Life is _____
The "blank" here can be any of the following: good, bad, hard, tough, easy, sad, complicated, simple, etc
But Life isn't all that simple is it? Can one truly summarize life in this way??? I think not. Life is...an incredibly complex and paradoxical equation of existence. All that is was and will be has and affect on this thing we call "Life." Sometimes, one might find themselves with too much going on or too much to process and their minds get backed up.
Imagine this: an old woman sits at a weaving machine. She has been working on an elaborate cloth and is working endlessly to create this beautiful masterpiece. Each thread, however, must line up perfectly or else it will come out wrong or fall apart. After sometime of work the woman leaves, and while she is gone someone comes along a cruelly begins to mess with the threads and shifts them around, and even breaks a few of them off.
The woman returns and gets back to work, she begins to realize that something isn't right. She must now make a decision. She can either ignore it and continue working, or she can back track her work and then take the time to fix that which was messed up.
For us, the choice seems obvious. Stop, back up, and fix. This is the only way that it will come out right and it is the only way to salvage her work. Why would she do otherwise? I mean, it is frustrating to have to back up and do all that work, but isn't it worth it? Of course it's worth it.
And yet this is how we often treat life when things get tangled. We keep trucking on and ignore the disruption, the tampering, and the misplaced. Instead of seeking help or taking the time to try and realign our thoughts, priorities, and emotions we act as if nothing happened and keep going, the problems becoming more and more apparent the further down the road we go.
I have done my fair share of this myself, and right now I'm finding myself in need of retreat, to get away from it all to refocus and to clear my thoughts; to prioritize and to start fresh. At the moment I find my desire to get away something that I cannot fulfill in the way that I desire to do it, but until I can I must make a conscious effort to do small things at home to begin the process.
Way that I plan on doing this are through various spiritual disciplines such as :
- Silence/breathing
- Meditation
- Breath Prayers
- Praying
- Fasting
Soon I hope to be able to retreat to a place of prayer and solitude to complete this process that I have begun.
Peace be with you,
Stephen
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