Have you ever had the feeling that you haven't had an original thought in months? That you have just been riding the wave of someone else's creativity and passion? That you just don't know where your next good idea is going to come from?
I'm getting close to being there and I don't like it. Am I getting MCD?
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Or it could mean you need to schedule more storytimes, Happy Meals, park outings, slow walks, naps and doing nothing into your life. Seriously.
Read this Billy Collins poem. Imitate.
Languor
I have come back to the couch —
hands behind my head,
legs crossed at the ankles —
to resume my lifelong study
of the ceiling and its river-like crack,
its memory of a water stain,
the touch of civilization
in the rounded steps of the molding,
and the lick of time in the flaking plaster.
To move would only ruffle
the calm surface of the morning,
and disturb shadows of leaves in the windows.
And to throw open a door
would startle the fish in the pond,
maybe frighten a few birds from a hedge.
Better to stay here,
to occupy the still room of thought,
to listen to the dog breathing on the floor,
better to count my lucky coins,
or redesign my family coat of arms —
remove the plow and hive, shoo away the bee.
–Billy Collins
(from Nine Horses. Random House, 2002. 31-32.)
Hey Dean,
I am working on my Sunday school lesson right now. Dillon is in the bath, my husband is in Korea, I have about 10 hours of work and 4 pumpkin rolls to get through before the weekend ends. If I don't do my work, my job will suffer, if I don't take care of Dillon, he will suffer, if I don't call my husband, my relationship will suffer, if I don't make the pumpkin rolls, a friendship will suffer and a promise will be broken.
Don't forget the theme of this second week of Advent. . it is hope. The hope that what God promises will happen in a time when we will see it. The hope that we can see past our own issues and see the big picture.
There is a subtle distinction between what you wish could happen and what you hope happens. Sometime what you WISH will happen can be negative. . . . . . I wish he would stop thinking like that or I wish they would just be positive. Why can't I instead think along the lines that I hope something I do will inspire them to change their attitude.
If it doesn't it doesn't. It's hard to be an optimist, especially when the world doesn't reward optimism. The world rewards cynicism and pessimism. Those feelings are much easier to handle because if you are wrong there is a GOOD result. If you are an optimist. . .and things don't go the way you want. . .it's a BAD thing.
Even in church there are more pessimists than optimist. A negative is much easier to talk about than working on a solution.
Have heart, though. Sometimes it only takes one. . . and you are one of those ones who can make a change, who can make a difference and who can change a congrigation from pessimism to optimism. It's a burden, to be sure. . .but one you are uniquely equipped to handle.
Lean on the people you can so when the people who are pushing on you will face greater resistance.
In other words. . .you'll get 'em in the end.
Wow, Liz. Hope, negative v. positive wishes, optimism. This is a great way to start the week, with these things in mind. Thank you!
Thanks Liz! I needed that encouragement.
Don't know where else to post this. But YAY to Debbie Libby for proposing and organizing (with the fabulous Crystal) UUMC's first Breakfast at Bethlehem!
This was an excellent, meaningful event. Megan and I have fun participating in it, and it was great to see all the children getting excited about the real meaning of Christmas!
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