Hump day pause
but still grateful
I intended to inform you that I would not be available today, but I’ve lost time. Mia culpa. I’ll be back Friday. I’d love to return to any gratitudes you’d like to share in my absence.
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Yes! I have found this to be true…
Steel was discovered when an angry blacksmith who had been sorely insulted and chastised by the king took out his fury on an iron sword that he had made by the hundreds before for the army.
As he beat it with his hand sledge to express his upset, and kept on beating and beating on it, putting it back into the fire until it was red hot again and then pulling it out and putting on the anvil and beating it some more,…
the molecules in the hot metal went into cohesive alignment and became the first steel.
This sword, when it cooled, was far lighter and smoother looking than the old iron swords, and kept its edge even when slicing iron swords in half…
To me, this analogy has always been deeply meaningful …
To receive the heavy blows of life and use them to transform myself into the greater man the divine has ever been calling me to be by adopting the attitude that…
This experience is for my training and not matter how hard it seems to be, I will learn what it can teach me…and keep on keeping on.
I am grateful for the life that we are now creating in which we a exploring new frontiers every day...where even though it seemed impossible, we are bringing harmony out of many many years of conflict.
I am grateful that we are truly learning to commune a cate....to achieve the state of communion together through open hearted communication, even when it is really really really challenging.
I am grateful for this relationship which endures and gets deeper, more profound and amazing by the day...even though it is never easy, even though we are often pushed to the limit of what we can handle.
I am grateful for the sweetness we share in silence while holding hands during our morning walk.
I am grateful for everything about her...even when she is having a hard day and may be a little bit tough on me, because i have realized that we are both growing spiritually at a steady pace...as a result of the way we work our process....
I am grateful that she helps me become a greater better man, not because she’s always sweet and nice and easy to be with, but because she has high standards and will not compromise her integrity.
I am grateful that our relationship has never been the Cinderella kind of “happily ever after”, but has always been like two eagles learning to fly together whose wings are spread wide now to soar on the warm thermals of rising Love between us.