Living Life
The week ahead of the Mayan prediction was exhausting and mentally and emotionally draining to say the least. Why? well the newspapers featured articles about the world coming to an end from the scientific point of view and there were also light hearted articles on how best to spend the last few days or the last@21/12/2012. It was amusing and enlightening to note other people's views on the end of the world.
After the third day of reading such articles, it started to get tiring. The world will one day cease to exist...no thanks to human intervention which is clearly visible everywhere if one cares to observe the environment and the attitudes of people.The summer seasons are getting abnormally hotter and winter is colder.Earthquakes are happening on a more frequent basis and many other natural disasters are on the rise.Does it not tell you something?
When was the last time you actually had a meaningful conversation with a family member or even laughed with abandon? Has anyone told you that they simply love going to work, being stuck in a mile long traffic snarl and would never dream of throwing in the towel?
Is it my imagination or the rest of you have also encountered rude behaviour from adults in a situation where it was totally uncalled for?and you wonder why kids these days are ill mannered?The declining social fabric has been taking place slowly but surely to the point that even a skilled hand with a needle and thread could not return it to its respectable and long lasting original piece!
So, why pretend or dismiss the coming of an end which is inevitable?. Indeed it makes one take stock and reflect on the priorities in life, of life itself.
i want to share this simple saying from Ida Scott Taylor which a good friend shared with me and i have read it and reflected on the words many times through the dark days. i hope it will shed some light into yours too.
"Take Each Day One At A Time"
One day
at a time -
this is enough.
Do not look back
and grieve over
the past,
for it is gone,
and do not be troubled
about the future,
for it has not yet come.
Live in the present,
and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth
remembering.
Take care and wishing a holy and blessed Christmas to all.
After the third day of reading such articles, it started to get tiring. The world will one day cease to exist...no thanks to human intervention which is clearly visible everywhere if one cares to observe the environment and the attitudes of people.The summer seasons are getting abnormally hotter and winter is colder.Earthquakes are happening on a more frequent basis and many other natural disasters are on the rise.Does it not tell you something?
When was the last time you actually had a meaningful conversation with a family member or even laughed with abandon? Has anyone told you that they simply love going to work, being stuck in a mile long traffic snarl and would never dream of throwing in the towel?
Is it my imagination or the rest of you have also encountered rude behaviour from adults in a situation where it was totally uncalled for?and you wonder why kids these days are ill mannered?The declining social fabric has been taking place slowly but surely to the point that even a skilled hand with a needle and thread could not return it to its respectable and long lasting original piece!
So, why pretend or dismiss the coming of an end which is inevitable?. Indeed it makes one take stock and reflect on the priorities in life, of life itself.
i want to share this simple saying from Ida Scott Taylor which a good friend shared with me and i have read it and reflected on the words many times through the dark days. i hope it will shed some light into yours too.
"Take Each Day One At A Time"
One day
at a time -
this is enough.
Do not look back
and grieve over
the past,
for it is gone,
and do not be troubled
about the future,
for it has not yet come.
Live in the present,
and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth
remembering.
Take care and wishing a holy and blessed Christmas to all.
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