In the Midst of Things

Busy lives keep us in relationships with people – known and unknown, and things and places and events. Bumping up against so many ideas and circumstances as we go about our routines for job, home, family and community. Sometimes we feel connected and fulfilled. Other times there is a gnawing loneliness that often leaves us puzzled.

Kim Culbertson provides this statement that gives perspective to this feeling:

“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”

Good thought, that! If the loneliness begins to get to you then there’s some work to do. Remove yourself from the wrong people for starters, of course. Another possibility is to try and convert them, but that will likely lead to more loneliness – both because they will seem more wrong to you or they will leave you physically alone as well!

Searching for an alternative plan is like preparing a plan A and plan B. Just remember, the alphabet has 24 more letters to use!  Stay cool.

A reminder in all of this is a quote we've used here before:

            “Judging a person does not define who they are.

  It defines who you are.”

If you wish to be defined by the good things earlier posited, then keep working at it!

When it comes right down to it, “counting other people’s sins does not make you a saint.” Or me either. But try telling that to the righteous among us.

In the midst of a new week, I’ll leave you with these thoughts. Perhaps they will come in handy.

October 16, 2012