NO RUSHING

This is one of the last bulbs I saw on the bush.  It was in no RUSH to bloom.

I find that this defines my life right now.

I woke up this morning and heard the birds singing and saw it was still dark and I felt in no to rush and get up.  I find that I am much slower doing a lot of things and I am okay with this.

I took these pictures yesterday as I took my time on my walk about.  This is a wonderful time of the year although the weather is still very cool.  The sun that shines during the day brings some warmth.

Yesterday we had a visit from Sandra who looked lovely even though she too is having shoulder and hip pain.  Both dad and I know how frustrating it can be to get help from the doctors about chronic pain. I believe that it is important to ask for a referral if it is possible some other doctor can help. She left taking some of our stuff that I am clearing out to the Thrift Shop. A good help for me.
I am slowing going through things because the less stuff you have I think it makes life easier.

You would think that a person who stayed in their pj's all day would be sitting around but not our daughter she was out cutting both front and back grass.  Huge job especially with the grass still a bit wet and growing higher by the minute.

She came back to deliver a sweater jacket to dad and then rushed away..  The reason Pat and John had dropped in for a visit.  I brought out our fancy tea cups for a change.  Silly to have things you do not use.

I had gone to church and the atmosphere was very happy and uplifting.  Several people asked about dad  and mentioned that I should tell him he was missed.  I was given some delicious cookies made by a baker in our church.  I know you can make some good gluten-free food if I really tried.

I was reminded at church that the religious or spiritual life requires both the mind and the heart and the will.  The church has been used to creating a language all it's own which leaves people lost and builds a barrier instead of being open.  And although it is true religion has it's own specialised language it can be and needs to be translated into everyday terms.  It is so true that academic philosophers and professional thinker use different words that they are comfortable with but the rest of us are not.

But sad to say the church is in no haste to change.

"Religious practice is a human response to the profound mysteries that surround us and inhabit human life; the mysteries of life and death, and suffering and evil, and meaning and; above all existence itself."  Ralf Heintzman.

I have met many people who express their faith in different words but who are extremely loving and caring and who have taught me that in all our certainties there is uncertainty but sharing helps us to search together and learn from each other.