This has been a hard week. Through media, we have met the great fires in California. We hurt for the many involved persons. In a sense we are suffering with them. The Midwest is experiencing snow storms of large proportions. And now the ice and snow are traveling up the east coast. We are in pain for the many who have suffered such tragedies.
It’s a balance that we not become overwhelmed. We do not want to become a burden but rather a help to others. We must restore ourselves.
We, in the Midwest, are in the peaceful time between snow storms. The sun has arisen and has presented us with many shadows that change what we see. Like the clouds of summer, that give us new images to enjoy, so the sun on the winter shape can bring us to an enriched view of earth.
Give yourself time to enjoy what is beautiful and admirable. The following, I hope, will give you a reason to smile. During World War II my Father was drafted into the army. There were three of us children ages three, two and one at home with my Mother. In one of the daily letters to him, she wrote about a game we invented and named Garbage Man. (We liked to watch the truck come through the neighborhood.) Mother would give us children an outdated magazine. We would have great fun tearing it in pieces, scattering around the pieces, and then collecting them. It took time and wore us out. Thank God for creativity.
