I looked at the waxing moon in all her glorious beauty, thinking of how her presence makes our lives possible, creates our ocean tides, the inspirational and calming mother-light she provides. Knowing that her light is a reflection of that greater light, she reminded me: “No matter how dark things are on your side of this earth, the sun is still shining.”
As I was watering my outside plants it occurred to me that I could think about what I was going to do next [after watering the plants] [the future] or I could think about something that has happened in the past or some difficulties that I’m facing in my family [the past or current problems] etc. Or I could just focus on watering my plants. The fact that I had a CHOICE is what really struck me. I could CHOOSE what I wanted to think about, or think of nothing at all –just BE. It seems very important that we be in touch with the self that makes a decision about what to think about. Otherwise we are “lost in our thoughts”; and frequently they don’t take us into good places. The Bible says some things about thoughts, and we do very well to understand what it says. If I don’t take some agency over my thoughts—if I am not aware that there is a self who is distinct from those thoughts and who can willfully shift them—then my thoughts will drag me through life wherever they randomly go.
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