I’m back in the saddle but I feel like I don’t have my feet in the stirrups yet. If I can get past today, I know things will ease off tomorrow and I’ll have the weekend without studies. Even after my two weeks off for Christmas I’m looking forward to breathing a little easier.
It’s been a full week of getting my paper polished off, doing my reading, and completing my project. I chose to do a power point presentation. Good idea but dinosaur computers and relying on a “learn as you go” technique has proved to be a little nerve racking. But I’ve had help, thank God, (pun intended), and I’m ready to read my paper and do my presentation this afternoon.
Tonight will still be somewhat full again. I will have a take home exam to do and its bath night for Mom so I don’t get home until late but Friday should feel like a picnic. I’ll just sit back, listen to the rest of the class present their projects, ask questions and applaud their work that’s the beauty of going on the first day and getting it over with.
What I do have a problem with, and which keeps nagging at me in the background, is that want to or not, I’ve slipped into a New Year without much reflection. I’m not one to get hooked on New Year’s resolutions but I like to look through the rear view window a little bit, get a quick recap of where I’ve been and then look ahead.
I like to get an idea of where I’m heading and how I’m going to get there. Not that I expect to know all the steps in between, that would probably ruin half the fun of getting there, but I like to have some clarity around the vision of where it is I want to go. I haven’t had time to do that yet and I know it would be a wise investment of my time. Besides I have a sneaking suspicion you won’t let me do otherwise.
This morning, while contemplating leaving my nice warm nest under my feather quilt, the whispers from my spirit were getting louder, “keep chipping away at what distorts the image of who you are, believe in what you are meant to do and commit yourself to go forward as if it already was, listen to the language of your soul, give yourself to mindful and meaningful living, cultivate the seeds of who you are and share it with your world.”
Sometimes I wish I could turn around and scream, “shut the f……up”, but I’ve tried it before and besides not being very nice, it really doesn’t work. One thing’s for sure, you’re very persistent.
Writefully Yours
Annette
1 comment:
Good morning Annette. Thank you for sharing these words. They inspire me.
the whispers from my spirit were getting louder, “keep chipping away at what distorts the image of who you are, believe in what you are meant to do and commit yourself to go forward as if it already was, listen to the language of your soul, give yourself to mindful and meaningful living, cultivate the seeds of who you are and share it with your world.”
love always,
Phillis
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