Reflection

Good morning, God, and thank you for a new day in our lives. I hope that I'm able to make the most of this new day and not just enjoy it, but make something of it that will be positive for me and the other people in my life.

Summer is here, and the transition of the seasons is a good way to remind ourselves just how "seasonal" our own lives seem to be. While most people really like summer because of the heat and the longer days, I have to say that it isn't my favorite season at all--it often gets too hot, and I need to have an air conditioner on just to sleep sometimes. And when it gets TOO hot--boy. In the winter we can dress appropriately and compensate for the cold, but when it's hot there's really nothing that we can do to compensate for the heat. I'm fortunate that I don't live in a place that's also humid.

But anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for today and let you know that I am trying to keep life in mind, that I'm trying to reflect on it rather than just pass through it; to learn from my experiences rather than just move through life from experience to experience without getting anything from them. So thank you for this new season and this new day--I really do appreciate them.

A reply:

You're very welcome. And I'm very glad that you're reflecting--it's important that you do so if you want to make something more of your life than just an existence. But I trust that you'll also allow many situations to simply be, without too much reflection on them. Sometimes reflection isn't just unnecessary, but it can seriously diminish the pleasure and the learning that can come from simply feeling a situation, from letting it touch your heart instead of your mind. I gave you a mind that you can use to interpret and analyze and explore, but I gave you a heart to live from. Yes, they must work together, but human beings seem more willing to let their mind dominate and they thus make the heart suffer. Don't do that, okay?