It's funny how things that never hit you just suddenly hit you... and you're there feeling it. Today I had this experience. First of all, I have been stopping ** and realizing just how much I am doing in a day. The last three days it has felt almost like continuous motion. Strangely, I am not tired, almost amazed at how much I have managed to accomplish, and yet there is a large part of me that is aching to break out of the rhythm and just do something incredibly spontaneous and joyful-- like give out free hugs, go swimming in the lake, set down the "list."
Then, I felt again the sometimes ever-present emotion that says: Speak what you need. Tell what you need. Say what you feel...
Then, this: I was driving into San Anselmo and passed the Bon Air shopping plaza. I do this so often. This time, I noticed amidst the 10:30pm sky how the plaza was still lit with lights. Then I imagined many other places I have been where there would never be enough resources or reason to spend such money in such a way. And I felt a huge emotion rise: When we will be able to live more simply so that, as the famous line goes, others may simply love?!?!?
Today at youth group was amazing. I was deeply proud of the theological conversation our group had.
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