What's on the good stuff agenda for today? Well, church for one. For a lot of reasons I haven't been able to go weekly lately, but today made two in a row and it's so good to be back. Pastor Shepler told an anecdote about monks who were disturbed by the noise brought into the abbey by visitors. When they complained to an elderly monk he told them, "Silence is not a lack of noise, it is a lack of self."
Ah! How hard it is to forget self and yet sometimes for brief moments, when I pray, there is only God and his awesomeness and our love for each other.
So much that I read now seems to be stressing getting in touch with your inner child or your true self. Maybe it is exactly what others need, but I grew up an only child, a disabled one at that, so there's been plenty of quiet time in which to delve into me. There is so much more, and it's not all about me.
My good friend Mike came to church today despite his chemo treatments and Ciel was there as well, only a couple of weeks after being hospitalized for a lung embollism.
It was a joy to be with them!
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