What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Ah, what value there be in the written record! It is a peculiar thing to revisit places passed through in times past…to hear your own words written in another time and place.

I am presently in a rough and rocky place spiritually and emotionally. With the wisdom of past experience behind me, I understand this present turmoil and chaos is but a passage to a higher place within myself and the world about me. Though I dare say that knowledge does not ease the discomfort of it all, it does at least, give one strength to persevere and not succumb to hopelessness.

A friend emailed me something this morning that I wrote some years ago (exactly how many years ago is unclear in my memory…perhaps 3 or 4?) in response to a study I was participating in at the time. I don’t remember if it was a letter to the author of the course, or if it was a personal journal entry that I’d shared with friends.

Though the subject matter is not really directly relating to my present state of soul, reading it now, nonetheless was an inspiration to return to that secret place within, where one may find healing and restoration in the rediscovery of who we are, where we came from, and where we're heading.

Of course, the critical, perfectionist, artsy side of me noticed every flaw and imperfection in the writing, and I am compelled to rethink the subject and correct said imperfections…perhaps embellishing with some new insights gleaned over times past since its initial writing. That will make a good post for ‘Granny,’ who it seems, has been in a somewhat dormant stage of being for some time now. Granny is still around, hence the identity has not been deleted (as has sadly been the recent fate of many of Granny’s ‘friends!’), she’s just been overwhelmed and preoccupied with daily life in general – “cares of this world” as one famous man once called it.

Time for Granny and the Sojourner to pull off the road for a season of refreshing and reconnecting with the life source at the center of the journey. Way PAST time to refuel you could say?! With a low fuel level and water in the tank, not to mention broken belts and timing that’s way off, small wonder the motor’s been spitting and sputtering and choking down lately. Maybe even a good oil change and tune-up are in order!