Beth's Ponderings
As I write this,
the snow is falling - okay, truthfully, it’s snowing and blowing up quite the
storm right now. By and large, we’ve
been very lucky this winter to have such lovely mild conditions so far, even if
this week looks and feels like winter. BRRRRRRRR!
As I thought about
what I wanted to write today, I realized what I really wanted to do was just
sit and watch the snow fall.
Sometimes we need
to stop everything we are doing, or stressing about what we want to do, and
just watch what is happening around us, whether it is the snow falling, a
candle burning, a sunrise or a sunset.
There is an old
saying “that a change is as good as a rest,” meaning that we can get excited
and recharged by changing what we are doing, thinking, or even where we are. How many times have you felt too tired to do
something, or go somewhere, but as soon as you went, you got a second wind and
felt energized? But sometimes, what we
need is a rest.
For too many of us,
rest may mean that our body is still, but our mind isn’t as we still worry and
fret about what we think we have to worry and fret about, or our very long list
of to-do’s. Mental - and even emotional -
activity is even more exhausting than physical activity!
Yet, when we really pause - to watch the snow fall or a candle burning, or whatever you notice - in those moments (even if they only last a heartbeat or two), we are revived at a deep soul level, and we are able to move forward with renewed energy and enthusiasm.
Beth
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