I’m enjoying the book Inner Peace for Busy People
It is divided into 52 topics “simple strategies for transforming your life.”
One reviewer wrote that he reads with a pen, and he ran out of ink on this one.
While I got mine at the library (it is the first of her books that I’ve read), it is one that I want to own. There’s too much in it of value, at least in the first half, written with humor and insight.
I tend to be a person of deep settled calm. If I fall apart, it is usually not seen by others, and usually after the moments of need. It doesn’t feel like me when I am not at peace. I need to find my balance again, through prayer, time alone, time with friends, doing something to settle myself down. I know myself well enough to know when I need it.
Not too long ago, I had a need that only a friend could touch. It was one of those moments when serendipitously the universe aligned so that one of my friends called in the exact moment of greatest need. And another friend called the next day to invite me to breakfast the following day, which we enjoyed. I felt those were direct answers to prayer. Perhaps I wouldn’t have recognized it, if it weren’t for the first instance where the timing could not be missed.
I never want to be so busy that I miss the timing. At the same time, the adage is, if you want something done, ask a busy person.
I am always occupied, even if only in my thoughts, but I don’t like to be busy. We can be so busy running around smartly that we miss those moments that are around us.
I’ve been thinking I need to take advantage of watching sunsets more often. It is a free gift every day, but how often do I take the time to remember, much less see one, unless, yes, I am running around (driving) at the time.
I liked this quote in the book:
I realized how anxious life had become. It was time to remember joy. So I quit my job and created a new life. p 95
There’s always time and a perfect moment to create a new life, to make life new every day.
How do you do it? or is it not something that you think about? Sometimes I think the latter is an easier way to live, but it isn’t me.
Karin
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