Good Morning Digital Neighbors! Happy Monday ADD Irregulars, Seekers of the WSN and all other Happenstancers that find there way here!

How about a week of prayers-poems-prose for our troubled world? Not necessarily from the Catholic or Christian tradition, but I certainly don't rule out those from the home turf as it was. 😊

THE INNER FLAME

I am not more than
a wisp
of
smoke
to the world,
but
to God
I am a flame of hope and promise
in a darkened room.

Joan Noeldechen

Much like attitude, perspective helps us see things more clearly. There is no denying the mess of the current state of things and its potential to get messier. There is plenty of encroaching darkness in the world, and it cares not a lick for any single one of us. Top that with individuals and organizations that don't mind the oppression and exploitations of others and you can pull out your Crayola doom coloring collection for many legitimate concerns. The macro is more than most of us can manage, and a steady diet of powerless fretting over world or national events that you cannot effect leads many to despair.

I am not saying don't be informed, but pay attention to your interior state. Getting wound up about the macro while ignoring the immediate will not lead you to a happier end game. Be informed on the macro, engaged in the micro and as attentive as possible to your interior dialogue and mental state. Allow the Divine, Fate, hopeful humanism or whatever you call it to make you a light to others rather than a person cursing the darkness and at the same time unwittingly contributing to it.

No sugarcoating, we are neck-deep in the crap, maybe even chin deep, but we are not choking on it yet nor or we constrained from doing our part about it in our immediate acre of reality. I believe in someone who who sees us as flames of hope and promise, that is more than enough for today. Peace my friends.

Campfire on Bose Lake - Eric Tank