Be Quiet

[Gabe]

"Today's thought is:
Having spent the better part of my life trying
either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I
have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
--Anonymous
How hard it, often seems, to quiet our minds so we can experience the
present. We know that we,re missing God,s message now when we,re
obsessively caught in thoughts of another time. But too often we allow
them to plague us anyway. We're not failures if we need to
repeatedly remind ourselves to be quiet, but we may think we are. It
might be well for each of us to observe a small child who is learning
to walk. She stumbles and falls and tries again and again, often with
peals of laughter. We, too, are children trying to master a new
skill. That we didnt learn how to quiet our mind in earlier years is
unimportant. We are here, now, and the opportunity to practice this
skill, will present itself many times today. And we will become
proficient at knowing peace with practice. Today I'll willingly
quiet my mind rather than let my thoughts carry me astray. You are
reading from the book:
In God's Care by Karen Casey
Copyright 1991 by Hazelden Foundation.

[Autumn]

Originally Posted by Gabe

That we didnt learn how to quiet our mind in earlier years is
unimportant. We are here, now, and the opportunity to practice this
skill, will present itself many times today. And we will become
proficient at knowing peace with practice.

How true this is....

Thanks for sharing, Gabe.

[Hopefloats]

I think I need to get that book
Thank you Ms. Gabe!!
Hope