1.8.10

there was a moment (just minutes ago) when all was serene.....

it's a beautiful sunday morning, the birds are chirping away, the car and boat traffic hasn't started just yet, and i am sitting on my back porch drinking a lovely cup of tea. this is the moment i've been waiting for all summer.... nay, all year. the quiet, the unrushed, the reflective.... time to sit and read, to write, to just be..... the dogs quietly resting next to me, the cat lazy at my feet.... this is what i imagine when i think of a stress free life (or perhaps a stress free moment).....

then in an instant that all changes.... i step into the house briefly to get a book and in that moment, pip disappears..... the dogs take off on a running spree through the neighbors yards and down the street taking with them the serene moment that i was just given.... and there i go, down the road after the dogs, flip flops floppin' and waking the neighborhood shouting the dogs names.... there is no use in calling pip's name as he lost his hearing last year sometime. age.

but here i am again... back in the serene, as if the other moment never happened.... the cat is by my feet again, the dogs next to me on the porch..... and my tea is still hot.

those little glitches in life.... don't they just happen for and in an instant?! yet they have the potential to wreak havoc on our lives unless we learn to somehow come back to the serene.... kind of like god's love.... how easy is it for us to have something take us from his love... where we step out of our relationship with him (note: he doesn't do the stepping away from us -- we do the stepping away, the looking away). we take on the stress when really we should be keeping our eyes fixed on him....

well, i'm off for breakfast with friends!