CONFUSED

Some days I feel more confused than others.

Like a confusing weather report that did not match what was outside my window.  the radio saying it was windy and cold until I realized dad had the Toronto station on.

Then the kettle would not work until I realized it needed to be turned on.

Articles in the newspaper.
David Brooks who wrote a popular book on relationships called "The Social Animal" is now getting a divorced which does not seem like a good recommendation for his book.  Writers do not always live by what they tell others to do.

Weddings are easy - Marriage is hard!

Meditation has its dark side and is not an easy answer to be an escape from life even as it it meant to be living in the moment.  "The truth is no one thing works for all.  The spiritual journey is unmasking of oneself, (the ego) being more authentically yourself, and what ever leads us there can be an individual journey whether it is prayer or meditation or counseling.

I have not really been able to meditate very well so now it seems maybe that is a good thing.

The comics do not seem to be all that funny any more so that is confusing.  Certainly our grand children have different ideas about humor.  I like family circus and Dagwood and Blondie!

I have lost several addresses of grand children.  I phone Mary and Michael John instead of asking Sandra again about their address.  I do write things down and I think lists are very important as long as you can find it when you need it; like the list for the store when I am going there.

It wasn't so long ago that family were asking me for addresses like Ken's and Rick's etc.

Yes things change like the geese honking and flying overhead yesterday morning where flying north not south.

I am confused by the evil that is in the world and how does this relate to a God of love and mercy?

C. S. Lewis writes that the defiance of the atheist hurled at a apparent ruthless and idiotic cosmos is really an unconscious homage to something in or behind the cosmos which he recognizes as infinitely valuable and authentic, for if mercy and justice were really just private whims of his own with no objective and impersonal roots he could not go on being indignant.

The fact that he arraigns heaven itself for disregarding them means that at some level of his mind he knows they are enthroned in a higher heaven still.

Justice for me is part of a theistic framework.

"If there were no higher divine law-that define what justice is-there would be no way to tell if any particular human practice or experience was unjust or not,"  Dr. Martin Luther King.

There is a gift of peace that others have found even in a life that suffered abuse.  Hope comes not in the solution but on trusting a Higher Power to change us from within.