Letter 4554

I have habits in the morning: slippers, tea, devotion. This morning they were disturbed. One of the animals needed me. It took the full morning to attend to them.

What do I do after being knocked off course? Shall I begin again? Shall I launch into the day, skipping my dawn rituals?

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Perhaps your message to me was that by pursuing the next indicated action, I would draw closer to you. Perhaps you were saying: listen.

Perhaps you were saying: come closer.

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Consider:

Can I accept all of your guidance today?

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Reading:

❖ “The woods are lovely, dark and deep,” — Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

❖ “We must work faithfully without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly and with tranquillity as often as we find it wandering from Him.” — Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

❖ “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (KJV)

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~B.R.