Feast or battle?
I thought I was gearing up for battle. I was preparing to learn a lesson of love. They whom I had thought an enemy had put out a feast and we dined together.
What now am I preparing to do? I dress, I clean. In my mind I see a battle, I festival, a coronation.
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What if all there is to come is a day of chores and duties? A day of friendship? A day of contemplation?
Lord, let me learn to live without expectation of result. Let me be open to the lessons you will teach me, the friendship you will show me.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I live without story?
Reading:
“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”
— William Shakespeare
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“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”
— William James
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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”
— Isaiah 55:8 (KJV)
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