Seven.
🔥.. because I said I would return & it’s practically Friday.
We shall see what we can do in 7 minutes..
It does look like I will have to set a strict schedule to keep these going. A no-buts, set-time where I sit for an hour and muse, stitch together whatever it is I’ve been thinking. Daily. I can manage this after dinner, perhaps after the wind-down after prayer, but it cannot be before sleep.. like just. this. moment. .. because I run the risk of returning to whatever it was that withered away.
Spontaneous jauntings are delightful, but they can’t be the fuel of deeper work. OR.. deeper work always abides within, but we can’t depend on these sort of light trappings to contain the mystery within. What am I really trying to say?
I will always be fascinated with the depth I can reach in such a few minutes of writing. There is nothing under God’s Sun I can’t talk about, can’t plumb.. especially when it comes to the human heart.. my own heart. Too much of it, though, and the waters grow shallow. I must honor ebb and flow.. which also includes writing down the beginnings, middles, and endings of a complete series of thoughts, a concept.
I’ve had several of those this week.. one today, in fact, but, again, Discipline escaped me.
Perhaps you would have enjoyed it (you would have), but I preferred the company of my family tonight as my summer “ends” tomorrow — whatever that means!
My body has to traverse some miles into a building, where I will meet my STEM mentor, and she will meet me, and I will proceed make her mind explode with my ideas.. and I begin to have a set schedule for work again, away from the family..
.. but all the while, my Summer Abides, and I live and love somewhere else that is foreign to — but exquisitely familiar — to everyone I encounter.
Contemplating — prayer and writing — is where I reach my Eternal Summer.. and all of life is always perfect.
.. yes, I’m back. Nine minutes over.. this is the little I can do in 16 minutes.
Prayers and love..
❤️
in Love,
your veronica
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In Spiritu Tuo, ad gloriam Patris. 8.3.2023