MEANING

Life has meaning and purpose even in small ways.

A sharing of our journals as Jane and I are doing has been very meaningful for me. 

I was glad to walk with Gundy yesterday morning.   Her thinking is a bit strange but I know it did her good,  both the walk and the talk.  Healing for us both.

If someone accepts your offer of friendship it gives both your lives meaning.  This I try to explain to her. 

Sometimes we have to look for the meaning and purpose of our lives.

 

 

"There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply bitter,

and that is to have trust upon them a life without meaning. . . .

 

                        There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. . but of more comfort to the soul. . is something greater than happiness or unhappiness and that is meaning.

 

                         Because meaning transfigures all. . .once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you are happy or unhappy.

 

                        You are content -you are not alone in your spirit- you belong."

                               (Sir Kaurens van der Post from Hasten slowly.)

 

 

Dad went for his first spring bike ride.  It is difficult when there has been so much rain.

I was happy to have a rest while dad took the milkshake to Jim and carried on to Best Buy to purchase a new computer which will take the frustration out of his life and add new meaning of course.  He bumped into Carol there and they had coffee together.

Also able to talk to Ken on Viber and he sounds like he is managing okay even though it is a miserable and uncomfortable time.  Both Melina and Mathew have been under the weather but are okay now.  Children always catch a lot of colds the first year attending school.


"Life is not meaningful. . . .
unless it is serving an end beyond itself;
 unless it is of value to someone else."   -Abraham Joshua Herschel.