Pyjama Week continues... :)
I am having a very slow and restful time, the prelude to what I'm increasingly thinking is going to be a fallow year for me. A year when I'll do my best to live quietly in the moment, make little in the ways of plans and as much of possible make use of what I already have around me.
This John O'Donohue quote has become a companion and comfort to me every since a friend shared it with me. It feels like it could have been written especially for the current situation.
This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.
Another friend found that is is actually part of a longer blessing called, For the Break Up Of a Relationship. In many ways, we are all mourning the loss of our relationship with the wider world at the moment and looking for ways to build a new relationship with a new partner, the world as it now is.
That is bound to take time and we need to treat ourselves gently whilst we do it.
