ponder

What to do when You’re tired of worrying.

The first family who lived in our current home moved in before women had the right to vote. They knew nothing of Prohibition, the Spanish Flu, the Stock Market Crash, and the two World Wars to come.

Despite the expansion of travel and increased connectivity, you and I probably share many of the same worries and concerns as the other families who have lived in my home over the past 100 years. I think we have added few more worries to our minds because of the speed of modern life coupled with the amount of information we access daily.

The Path of Self-Forgiveness

Bleary-eyed and a little road weary, we walked along the hectic bike lane toward the beach. None of us sure about what to expect. The cliffs were high so you didn’t just enter from the road and cross the dunes the way you can at some beaches. Making your way alone is too dangerous, steep, and precarious. It is best done with a friend following the narrow way created by other feet.

Descending we made our way and perched on boulders overlooking the surf. One with a guitar, the others bringing lyric-filled phones and hearts ready to pour out praise.

The virtual world gives you an inkling of the real thing captured in pixels on a screen. But, being present in real life you experience so much more. This is not only true about the beach and the mountains but with people, too. FaceTime is great, but being with someone’s real face in real-time is altogether better.

There is no such thing as virtual forgiveness.

Some times, I think we approach the act