Seeking!

[caressa]

You are reading from the book Touchstones

A person who is looking for something doesn't travel very fast.
—E. B. White

What do men really want? What are we seeking? Many of us have felt driven and still feel restless or compulsive at times. We frantically followed our impulses to self-destructive extremes. Even those painful actions of our past were motivated, at the bottom line, by a spiritual search. What did we really seek in the bottle, or in the passionate bed, or in our work? Slowing down enough every day to let ourselves know what we are looking for gives us a much better chance of finding it.

Today we can slow down by taking twenty minutes for solitude and quiet, for meditation or prayer. We can call a friend simply for a moment of contact. We might read something to give ourselves some ideas to ponder, or we can listen to music, which will transport us to another world. Perhaps we can simply walk more slowly from our cars or the bus stop to our homes. Often it is not the events in our lives that bring change but the space between events.

Today, I will try to remember that slowing down may help me find what I am seeking.

This conjures up a very vivid picture of how much time I wasted in my life looking for answers, not accepting the truth and continuing to look even when what I needed was right in front of me.

How easy my mind can wander away from the path, take detours and get distracted by the little things along the way leaving a path behind me that looks like it was still being travelled by the drunken sailor or pilgram.

It says in the Bible, "Seek and ye shall find." So much of my life I spent waiting for it to tap me on the shoulder and tell me what to do, how to do it and in what direction I should take with no thought of going out and looking for myself. I expected it to fall at my feet or appear in a blinding flash of revelation when in truth I had a closed mind, a barrier so high and think that little could get past it, and if it showed up, I wouldn't be able to recognize it because I didn't know what I was looking for.

[caressa222]

Posted this today, didn't have this response to it. In fact if I remember rightly, I didn't share at all because it was from Touchstone and thinking it is for men, I won't be able to identify. You know, the old adage, men are from Mars and women are from Venus.

I think my thinker is broken. Just can't remember these days.

If I remember rightly I think I put it under discussion under "L" and posted a picture o a granny walking wither her cane.