ONE THING ABOUT GOING FOR ALL THESE WALKS AROUND MY CITY IS THAT I KEEP DISCOVERING PLACES I’VE NEVER EVEN SEEN BEFORE …. AND I’VE LIVED HERE FOR OVER 20 YEARS!
I HAVE BEEN TO THE TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE MANY TIMES BEFORE. WE’VE BEEN THERE TO SEE IMAX MOVIES AND TO BRING OUR GRANDCHILDREN THERE TO SEE THE SCIENCE EXHIBITS. BUT I NEVER KNEW THAT BEHIND THE BUILDING THERE ARE MANY WALKING PATHWAYS , PICNIC AREAS , AND A BRAND NEW OBSERVATORY!
THE OTHER DAY I LISTENED TO A WISE, FAITH FILLED WOMAN NAMED NADIA BOLZ-WEBER (A MUSICIAN/PERFORMER I BELIEVE) ONLINE SPEAKING ABOUT HOW SHE IS RATIONALIZING THIS TIME AWAY FROM HER GIGS AND CHURCH, ETC.
LIKE ME SHE WAS ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD . “WELL, THINGS WILL BE O.K. WHEN WE CAN KEEP OUR JUNE GIGS. THINGS WILL GET BACK TO NORMAL WHEN WE RESUME OUR JULY FESTIVALS” …AND ON AND ON.
I NOTICED THAT I KEPT DOING THIS IN MY HEAD …”THINGS WILL BE FINE NEXT YEAR WHEN I GET TO SEE MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS AGAIN IN WINDSOR” …
NADIA READ A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT CHANGED HER WAY OF LOOKING AT LIFE. JAMES STOCKWELL SURVIVED 8 YEARS IN A P.O.W. PRISON CAMP. HE SAID YOU MUST HAVE FAITH THAT YOU WILL PREVAIL IN THE END. BUT AT THE SAME TIME YOU MUST CONFRONT THE BRUTAL FACTS OF YOUR CURRENT REALITY. HE SURVIVED BY BEING A REALIST…BUT WITH A DASH OF HOPE.
ALSO DAMIEN ECKLES… THE PARADISE LOST DOCUMENTARY SERIES WAS BASED ON HIS LIFE. HE WAS WRONGLY JAILED FOR MURDER AT 18 AND SPENT HALF HIS LIFE ON DEATH ROW. “THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT HELPED ME STAY SANE WAS THAT I HAD TO LIVE IN THE MOMENT. YOU CAN’T DWELL ON THE FUTURE WHETHER IT’S COVID OR YOUR FUTURE EXECUTION DATE OR YOU WILL CONSTANTLY LIVE IN FEAR AND MISERY.” (MY PARAPHRASING)
TODAY HAS TROUBLES OF ITS OWN AND WORRYING ABOUT THE FUTURE CANNOT POSSIBLY HELP US. Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? MATTHEW 6:27
I GUESS IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE. I AM LEARNING TO LIVE EACH DAY AS THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT IN MY LIFE WHILE CONSTANTLY MAINTAINING HOPE. I AM BLESSED TO NOT HAVE TO ‘FLY HERE AND FLY THERE’ ,MY SCHEDULE IS MY OWN,AND I AM TRYING TO BE PRESENT THIS DAY.
GOD IS ALREADY PRESENT IN THE FUTURE SO MAYBE I CAN ‘LET GO AND LET GOD’.
AND I AM GOING ON A PICNIC TODAY. WITH GRATITUDE.
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