Sitting in front of this blank screen with my eyes closed, I reach back into my memories for moments of beauty to crystallize with words and share with my small online world. I have recently discovered that the intentional remembrance of small wonders in daily living can help me endure the monotony of routine, the pangs of loneliness, and the crush of disappointment that sometimes meet me along my way. This meditative thought-gathering starts in my mind, travels through my heart, and settles into my soul, which in turn reminds me that it is well. All is well - this life brilliant in its beauty and pain - and my God is good through it all. One of my clients is a teenage girl who sits in my office every other week and declares, with equal parts conviction and despair, that this world - and in turn her whole life and future - is boring. She loses herself in novels and movies, and is deeply afraid of turning her attention back to reality for fear that the bleakness...
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