Good Morning Digital Neighbors & ADD Irregulars! Things keep changing in the world of Tommy-land! It looks like I may be going home for rehab instead of the 5th floor of this hospital. While that is an exciting prospect it raises all kinds of questions and concerns.
My hope is that rehab will help navigate the ordinary movements of life. Nothing will be quick for me anymore, this will be the biggest change I have faced in my life. I am used to being able to move about freely and without thought. I am now dependent. It is going to be difficult to adjust to that reality and I pray I can handle it with the prayer, poise and humor that is at the forefront of my desires. Temptations to frustrations, the aggravations I will encounter in the dance between wanting to be prudent about my movements without being hostage to my fears.
Hostage to my fears - that is something I want to avoid at all cost but not do so recklessly and setback my healing. The primary goal is healing and a return to mobility. The next goal is to discern and determine how much normalcy I can regain during the 6 weeks I get to walk among you as Frankenstein. I'm not joking, there is zero movement in the knee braces. Once on my feet I can navigate the walker fairly well, but sitting is a real challenge and sitting in lower chair or surfaces out of the question. Time will tell how it all goes, patience, acceptance and gratitude are what I hope to find more in these next 6 weeks.
I have to be more intentional about bathroom issues and much more careful about transitions from laying or sitting to standing. I can't spend the entire day standing, so figuring out what works best for me will be part of the discernment in my transition to home. One day at a time. I hope to be back at Mass soon as possible. I miss celebrating the Eucharist and being at prayer with the family I love. Being united in prayer and praise is the greatest way to spend our time together. Sunday is the peak and weekday Masses are the bonus expressions of this great mystery that tries to open the veil to the deeper meaning of sacrifice, suffering, redemption, resurrection and ascension into glory. All of that is capped off in gratitude and praise in communion with God and neighbor.
Continued prayers are appreciated. They have meant so much to me over these last four days and have lifted my attitude and perspective in the way I most desired. I never want to be Pollyannaish in my outlook, but positivity sure beats being a crab, whiner or worrywart. Love you all so much.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
