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Well, my album is done and I have finished my web story about
Gregory. His due date has come and gone, and I have had a very tough
week. I think the pressure was building as I approached the due date,
and, of course, Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming and I will not have a new
baby in the house as we were imagining. But, I'm glad that I was able to
do something important on that day by finishing his "story" and
sharing it with my friends and family. I so need to remember to feel content and
grateful with what I have right here and now, but I am torn between the
"moving on" and the "holding on"... the living in this
world... and the longing to be home with God, and my baby. This week I
heard of a quote by Franz Kafka. "There are two cardinal sins from
which all the others spring - impatience and laziness". I think this
quote fits in with my thinking this week because the first thing I thought when
I read the quote was ... "Yes, impatience in that we want to go be with
the Lord, but lazy in that we don't want to do the work in our daily lives in
order to prepare ourselves." I cannot help but assume that the
impatience and laziness he mentions ultimately must relate to our reuniting
with God. After all, what greater work is there? What else do we
*really* want? This urge, this need to exit this earthly realm, is a
literary theme. I remember reading several Hans Christian Anderson
stories with our Junior Great Books group some years ago. One story we
discussed as a group was called The Snowman. The snowman had a great urge
to move near a pot belly stove, knowing that it would lead to his *physical*
destruction. He was a moth to the flame. Though we know we have to
pass through the valley of death, somewhere in us, we know we want to go home. |
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Posted by Anonymous