Oh well, revealing my need for consistency was not my intention for today's post. My thought for today's post was to share my weekend trip to Texas. I took 70 some pictures of my sister's and brother's-in-law beautiful home and the family they always welcome there. I had planned to use some of those pictures in this morning's blog and then move on with my day of volunteering at Clarehouse. But something happened to interrupt my routine. The pictures mistakenly were deleted from my SD card on my camera. BUMMER GALORE! Clouds just keep building.
Feeling like I just couldn't get it together, I gave up on blogging and turned to today's meditation in The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo. Spontaneously, I share this with you as today's post.(There may be hope for me yet)
Mark writes, "Some days I wake with a cloud around my heart, and it dulls everything except the weight I carry deep inside. Yet, just because I can't make it to the light today doesn't mean that the light has vanished. In truth, the heart, like the Earth, is continually blanketed by ever-changing atmospheres that come and go between who we are and how we live our days.
So faith, it seems, can be defined as the effort to believe in light when we're covered by clouds, and though it feels like the sun will never come again, the truth is it has never stopped burning its light. In fact, its heat and warmth is burning steadily, right now, on the far side of whatever cloud we are under.
If we could only suspend our judgment when clouded in the heart. For many skepticisms are born from conclusions drawn while unable to see, as if any kind of understanding will prevent the clouds from coming or going again and again.
But no cloud lasts forever. The Earth and all that grows from it knows this well. So does the heart and everything that grows from it, in spite of all our very understandable pains."
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