Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Blessed Sunday to all the Triggeratti, ADD Irregulars, Refugees & PHAM! I hope your weekend is going swimmingly well my dear Bigots, Dawn Patrol, Early Birds, Later Dayers, Fascinating People, Day Walkers, Conversants, Lurkers and Visitors to the WSN (weird shit niche') of Local communities. WSN was coined by one of the Irregulars at Coffee Talk for context and perspective. 😉 A simple reminder for this Sunday from Barbara Younger with some commentary by the Friar.

COUNTING BLESSINGS
Count them
Constantly,
With each step,
With each breath,
With each blink,
Blessings!
Counting, counting,
Constantly.

Providential God, good fortune, blind luck, hard work- to whatever you attribute your blessings, it is a good personal practice to list them to yourself so you do not forget that they exist. If you find your life devoid of blessings, I pray someone or something opens your eyes even a little to find one ray of sunlight, one grain of beauty to provide that glimmer of hope without which many of our inner-selves wither.

Peace my friends, I have overflowing blessings in my life, not that it is not without its challenges and difficulties. Too often in the moment, in the beginning of an unfolding crap-fest, I am tempted to give into the feelings of the moment and believe the immediacy of this current trouble is the unfolding of something far worse. Rarely is that the case, but feelings in the moment, seem so real. Feelings are real, in terms of reaction, but in terms of perception they are so often inaccurate. Rather sad that our current chapter of feeling analysis in the West is to enshrine our feelings as without question, rather than the beginning of questions to the self. To be trapped in distorted feelings is almost as bad as thinking you possess no blessings. In fact, if your distortions go without question, you will cultivate a far darker interior state than imaginable. Well, I guess not unimaginable, since we see more and more of it on display in the daily theater of the absurd that we call the news.

Feelings (suddenly someone at a Kimball stores is playing one of those intrusive mall organs, thankfully usually not singing), nothing more than feelings. . . . Great for creativity, for the coloring life with vibrancy, for opening the door to affective understanding, but rarely reliable for life decisions. There are rare circumstance when they are the reason you will make a sudden, perhaps even heroic choice, but more often than not they are more of a roll of the dice for accuracy.

Blessings - I have counted mine already in this early morning. I hope you can find yours and they will make a difference in how you venture forth into the day and the people you will meet.

The pride of Texas - Katelyn E.