Time to Move

"Don't judge yourself by your past.

You don't live there anymore. - unknown

We’ve all been there.  We made mistakes in the past, as we were growing and learning.  We made some stupid decisions.  Consequences followed - hopefully - or else why bother to do better?

Sometimes old memories may haunt us.  Yet we can work on changing for the better.  As the above quote says - we don’t live in the past - except in our minds where we make ourselves  go back, and end up judging ourselves for how we acted back then.

🎨Belgian artist Jos Troch

We are able to make a strong effort to move away from the past, into today.  OK, we carry luggage while moving.  Well, time to change that too.  Letting go of past mistakes, finding forgiveness in oneself, and sharing the burdensome past with a friend, or therapist, with someone, can help ease that transition.

It’s time to move into the present - into a new house of the mind.  Be kind, be warm, be forgiving.  Be accepting.  And if you please, be a good Christian.  Don’t be angry and hateful or exclusive.  Be human with a touch of loving spirit, inclusiveness, acceptance of who is different.

We can transform our lives and be an influence for others as well, without forcing our beliefs and ideas on others.

We can live in the here and now and be free of judgment.

We are not going back.  We are moving forward.     Theresa M

🎨New Zealand artist Peter Siddell

Autumn Life

 It's October now, and the leaves have been changing colors and swirling about.  This is my favorite season.  Yet this time I feel a bit sad, from losing Lilly in August.  She always loved autumn too, enjoying sunshine days on the screened porch, and cuddly evenings with me and Luke, and the past two years with Merci.

Life goes on, always in memories, in hearts, in spirit.  Somehow I do not feel a dread about the future, I just feel as if I am getting closer to home, our heavenly home.  Although I feel the sadness, I also feel the hope and upcoming joy of eternal life.  Not time yet though - I must live in today.  I will enjoy the beauty around me, the leaves, the pumpkins, the colors of fall.  The comfort of life - how fortunate to have this. 

Enjoy life as best as you can.  Some days are real terrors, others are pure joy.  Keep the faith, and the hope, and overall the love.     Theresa M

Lilly October 2023

us fall 2023

All the Time

For years I wore a watch regularly.  Of course I did need to keep track of the time to get to work, to eagerly check how close it was to lunch break, and especially for the time to go home.

📸 Alexis_Fotos on pixabay

Had clocks in the home in every room.  Needed an alarm, sometimes two, to get up.  Nevertheless I was often close to on time or was late for work anyway.  There was always something at home needing my attention.

Being retired now, I don’t wear a watch daily, and only sometimes do when I leave the house.  I still have a clock in every room, but rarely set alarms.

I like it this way.  No need to rush to have to go somewhere.  No need for “time” in that sense.  But oddly I do feel a sense of time slipping away.  And faster than before.

When I remember an event from the past, I get that feeling of “it seems like just recently it happened.” Even guessing when, I find that I can be more than a year off!  Maybe several years.  “That much time?” I find myself asking.

How could this be - how could life feel this way?  Time itself just moves at its own pace, never changes.

🎨 mine

I can’t hold time.  I can’t keep it, to save some for here or there.  There is no “time” to distribute where I want it.  Maybe life is like climbing a mountain, daily we check the time for this or that.  Once I’m up on top of the mountain, I continue on down the other side, only the going down part suddenly goes swiftly, as if I am on a raging river.  Whoa!  No clocks to grip onto to check the time for something.  It is just all going by so fast.  I can't hold on to time just as I can’t hold onto a snowflake in my hand and keep it.  That snow melted into this water slide!

What is there to do now?  Why not just keep living one day at a time - moment to moment.  Let it pass.  There is nothing to hold on to anyway.  Moments and Memories gently sail by.  Let me at least float on a raft once in awhile and take it all in.  This is all the time I have now.      Theresa M