For the restless spirit!

Today, almost everyone carries a lot of personal luggage ....as I look around, I struggle to find people that have no struggle going on in their lives. These are tough times, indeed.  In a world full of strife, it seems to be getting more and more difficult to find a safe harbor - a peaceful place where you can let your masks and guards down and breathe easy for a while, if only to energize and go back to your battles. Life "sucks" as my 19 year old often reminds me!!!! Like she really knows it already - bless her :)  But I am not one to give up on Life so easily - I just can't bring myself to do it. So I always look for ways to keep it going, with faith, prayer or delusion - whichever works best. Today, when I was a bit down in the dumps, and chose to withdrew to myself - I turned to my older blog posts; I read carefully what I had written back then, reminiscing on what I had felt then, and what I have lived through in recent years..... and t...

Wow! I hadn't realized it was that long since I last passed by here .....  So this is to reconnect.  With you.  And with me.  We all tend to get busy, with work, kids, responsibilities, chores, life. In a way, we welcome that for we believe it defines us, makes us who we are. Maybe that's why we keep looking at our smartphones whenever we have a spare moment - because we need to seen to be busy, right? Somewhere there's a strong link, I feel, to self worth.  Ofcourse, there's nothing wrong with that. Especially if that makes you happy. The here and the now is important; but you do run the risk of losing yourself in the race - and when Life finally does give you the opportunity to slow down, you look back and whoa! little drops of regrets begin to seep in ..... wish I had done more of that, less of this, so on and so forth. But alas, a tad too late maybe? Which brings me back to what I am doing this morning -...