Ponderings #36

 

Dear fellow travelers,

Another happy New Year, we didn't dissolve in 2012, we are still here, stronger than ever! For me I am here to be a better friend, to all.

I went to a beautiful interfaith World Meditation Peace Service yesterday morning. And one of the prayers that were read was the Christian Prayer of St Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hatred..let me sow love

Where there is injury...pardon

Where there is doubt..faith

Where there is despair...hope

Where there is darkness...light

Where there is sadness..joy

Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled...as to console

To be understood...as to understand

To be loved...as to love

For it is giving ...than we receive

It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned,

And it is in dying...that we are born to eternal life.

Has to me so much meaning.

Have a great life today and in the coming days, and remember today is a brand new day!

We have choice!

What are you choosing?

Pondering on meaning

Linda Patton, ENTC

Ponderings #37

Dear fellow travelers,

Thank you for your wonderful emails. I'm so grateful for you!!!

Now that the new year is well on its way. I have taken all last years paid bills, calendars, checking info etc., all that stuff of last year, to their new home, away from my desk. Obviously the desk is much less congested now. There is actual empty space!

Then I didn't stop there, I went to my bathroom, under the sink cabinet. I had eleven cans of spray mousse!! Really! not to mention the hair sprays, shampoos and on and on it went. Needless to say there is more room there now also. How could I just keep buying all those products!!

Then came my computer area. I had misplaced my center's directory. How could I not find a ringed notebook?? That is what actually started my decluttering task.

I spent half a day going thru old files and notebooks, and cleared out everything I hadn't looked at in years and didn't even remember I had. At the moment, to me, the shelves look neat. A rather large bag of stuff went out the door.

I actually even found the ringed notebook!!

How good it feels to see my computer table!

Now I'm really ready for the new to come! Decluttering is a good thing, maybe not when it may seem overwhelming to start, but in the end to me it is a relief.

I know I cant really enjoy the new, if I don't have room for it, wondering where to store it, or I'm still attached to all that old stuff.

Is there anything you are ready to unload? detach from? clear out?

Of course this could be a metaphor for anything mentally also that is dragging us down. What is not serving us anymore? Is it time to let it go?

Its time, I think for our lives to be lighter! Have fun this year or more fun!

Just pondering on decluttering,

Linda Patton, ENTC

http://Ponderings-everyday-spirituality.blogspot.com