R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Thoughts

"There's absolutely no reason to be rushed along with the rush." ~Robert Frost

Robert Frost's statement is true of the holiday season, but it's true for life. Don't you sometimes feel we are all just being jostled along in a big rush to somewhere? Articles say that the speed of our advancing technology alone is enough to make most people feel anxious. And then add to that the onslaught of the holidays and the tension is intensified. (I don't know about you, but another time I got that feeling of being trapped in a rush I didn't want was during my midlife divorce. Even though the affairs and separations took more than three years the actual divorce seemed to happen at lightening speed especially after 33 years together. Things just seemed to push onward to their inevitable conclusion until one day I was on the court house steps ... a divorced woman.) In a little part of the book I've been reading, You, Inc. there is a story of an energetic accomplished woman with a bright future ahead of her. The reality was that after a few years she was fired from her job, and then another and then another. Her problem? "Wherever she was, she was in a hurry." Let's learn from that. Let's learn to be in the moment. Let's enjoy this season and this season of life. I'm going to trim my schedule to something I can realistic accomplish. I'm going to take a deep breath today and do things I need to do with enthusiasm, but with a contented peacefulness that I am where I am, doing what I'm doing for an eternal purpose. I'm going to be in the moment enjoying it. And I'm especially going to enjoy the individual people I am in that moment with.

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven."
Ecclesiastes 3:1
How about you? I'm always glad to hear your comments on how you're handling these challenges.