So i am hoping that Elle Woods the Fox News Legal Analyst will be my blogging accountability partner, as i told her she should blog and catch us all up on life during and after her vacation with her significant other. I have let this slip for about three weeks, and yet I wonder....is anyone reading?
And then i realize, that is not why I must write, in a variety of venues and avenues. Words must be released from the soul just as water must flow through a dam. For whatever reason, i feel God has blessed me with recall and memory and good retention, but this can be a curse, for it enables me to wait too long and catch up all at once.
I used the phrase 'linguistic usurpation' today. Actually i misspoke and said ursurpation, and i realized, it has been too long since i read Shakespeare [act i of the Tempest on the I-pod en route from Memphis to DC doesn't count]. Truthfully, i realized how much i love words. And actually, how i've missed the more exquisite ones lately. I hope they have missed me as well.
Alright, enough of my meandering aimlessly through cyberspace....airplane runways: one of the most introspection-inducing books i've read is by a man who lost his wife, his ministry, and pretty much all hope and faith in anything at one point in his life. He wrote a 'fiction'al account of one of his closest friends/client's life [he is a Christian psychologist, this author] in which one of the lines stunned me for how real and analagous to my own life it is: "you are like a pilot who can do anything he wants once flying, but has no idea how to take off or land." the man he is referring to had an excess of activity in his life, but was going down a road of insanely high expectations, no 'margin' in his life, and was having heart problems.
this is exactly where i was headed before coming to Focus.
As I've been literally taking off and landing at seemingly every airport in the country lately, i've been hearing this quote echo back in my cranium again and again. I've recently taken off, and landed, successfully. What i mean by that is that i'm finally back in a rountine, and have gone from living a 'normal life' to traveling 24-7, and back again. It might not sound like much, but it's been quite significant.
That's all i got, and i suppose its not much...at least, not to anyone else. For me, this is a corner i have not been able to turn for years. I think sometimes God lets us go long seasons before things change, so we'll appreciate them more.
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