Dark and foggy. The mountains hidden. All we can be sure of is this moment. We do not really know what the future holds. We construct the future not by dreaming how we would like it to be, but by living the reality of what is in our life at this moment.
The future is completely open,
and we are writing it moment to moment.
Pema Chodron
I have been reflecting these days on how our sense of self is related to finding a space where we can feel safe, which we can be “at home”. It may be a place, but it is more likely found in the acceptance and love of others. We search for this all our lives. Without it we are restless, even lost.
One way to express the crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.
Henri Nouwen
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou
When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well,
but the certainty that something makes sense,
regardless of how it turns out
Vaclav Havel
Sometimes we do
not fully understand why things have turned out as they have. At times like this we understand that we cannot make life problem-free, but our focus is to try and give to our everyday life a depth and value. To do this we may have to sit with the difficult moments without understanding why they are there. Rilke suggests that we love the difficult. It is not easy, but his words encourage us to believe that there is meaning underneath what is happening.
What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.
Rilke
So be reposed
and praise, praise, praise
The way it happened
and the way it was.
Patrick Kavanagh, Irish Poet, Question to Life
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