Labyrinth
Last Sunday, I spent an hour walking a Labyrinth. http://www.labyrinthuk.org/page3.htm
As with all meditative practices, sometimes an insight or two bubbles up during the process. My insight was that somehow in recent years, my spiritual practice of writing has become a job. I have been happiest when thinking of my writing as my ministry, and lately I've been acting as if it were a career.
So part of why March sucked was the burglary and the incapacitating illness --- which turned out to be this year's relatively wicked influenza. But getting kicked onto my but by those events provided the context for realizing that I am spiritually off track as well.
I don't know what this is going to change, exactly.
On the positive side, spring has definitely sprung, and even thought the London days have been gray lately, it's definitely a springtime gray. That helps me feel that I may muster the energy and emotional resources to do whatever it is that I have to do next.
As with all meditative practices, sometimes an insight or two bubbles up during the process. My insight was that somehow in recent years, my spiritual practice of writing has become a job. I have been happiest when thinking of my writing as my ministry, and lately I've been acting as if it were a career.
So part of why March sucked was the burglary and the incapacitating illness --- which turned out to be this year's relatively wicked influenza. But getting kicked onto my but by those events provided the context for realizing that I am spiritually off track as well.
I don't know what this is going to change, exactly.
On the positive side, spring has definitely sprung, and even thought the London days have been gray lately, it's definitely a springtime gray. That helps me feel that I may muster the energy and emotional resources to do whatever it is that I have to do next.