Then as we were getting ready to leave for preschool, Merek threw up at the top of the stairs. :( The errands I had planned, project to do, piano lessons to teach . . . all of them pushed back on the to-do list. My little guy needed me. And I wasn't rattled or upset by not getting those things done.
I haven't liked surprises or changes to routine in the past. But I think I'm learning to accept and embrace the changes given to me. To find the good in them and see and evaluate why they happen, and how my reaction to them makes a big difference in the way they impact me.
In my daily devotional study yesterday, I read this poem by T.S. Eliot:
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
Enjoy your day :)
1 comment:
Thanks for sharing this, Melanie! You have such pearls of wisdom and your action shows :)
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