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FREE SPIRITS
Monday June 22, 2015
Going through motions, choosing emotions, what tune? Are you marching?
Aching regularity, job-satisfaction – or craving variety, inventing work, pitching best ideas, dreaming best works?
Imagine, incredible fulfillment …
Where we live, language, education, lifestyle, faith, politics – have we strayed, or stretched?
Taught. Shaped. Parental influences sometimes too harsh, too restrictive, so completely unfair. Legal age reached, freed from parents, free to choose …
Choices show less what laws allow/dictate than habits we formed – freedom, choices, our legal birthright – not so much about freedom or about choices, but our perception we exercise much of either.
Do we exercise that free spirit? Not much …
Imagine approaching earth from outer space – tourists, explorers, with good information – where would you land, what would you, how would you invest time and energy, how would you live your life?
Get busy.
Mark Kolke
column written/ published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: 5C/42F, clear and calm – chilly; now earth’s tilt begins its reverse cycle, a few minutes less daylight every day but summer is here and nobody notices. That sun, all that vitamin D, energized me. Gusta seemed, as usual, to need only the encouragement of things that smell to take her nose on journeys we never imagined …
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PROPOSED CALENDAR REVISION
Thinking of you. Each day I read some writings from a little volume, Disciplines for the Inner Life. Recently I came across this one and thought of you, given our “spiritual” conversations. “It is not only those who are growing old, finding the shadows of life lengthening, who are in search of meaning; there is a desire in every human being to find some kind of unity and coherence, some meaning in the diverse experiences of life. All of us instinctively want to find some kind of key that will unlock the secret and meaning of good days and bad, joy and sorrow, youth and old age, sickness and health, life and death. We want some kind of framework of understanding within which we can find perspective and be freed from the delusion of confusing that which is truly important with the monumental trivia of life. It is, I think, only the overview of faith that can provide for us this insight into life, this meaning of life. As Dag Hammarskjold recalls in his book, Markings, “On the day I first believed in God, for the first time life made sense to me and the world had meaning.” -From a Reason to Live! A Reason to Die! By John Powell. Best wishes for your journey this week, GD, Calgary, AB
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