a cloud in the heart...
The thought by Mark Nepo for April 19th. "Outwaiting Clouds" includes a neat concept that usually is not thought of, and that is thinking and deciding when under duress - emotional, physical, emotive, spiritual. Nepo writes:
"...If we could only suspend our judgement when clouded in the heart. For many skepticisms are born from conclusions drawn while unable to see, as if any kind of understanding will prevent the clouds from coming or going, again and again."
How many decisions have I made under that un-comfortableness and uncertainty fog of fear, pain, or shame, or guilt, for example. And typically those decisions bring even worse consequences, at best. And in hope, the author continues with...:
"But no cloud lasts forever. The earth and all that grows from it knows this well. So does the heart and everything that grows from it, in spite of all our very understandable pains."
There in comes the waiting. The 'faith'. The restraint.
That this "cloud" too, will pass.
"...If we could only suspend our judgement when clouded in the heart. For many skepticisms are born from conclusions drawn while unable to see, as if any kind of understanding will prevent the clouds from coming or going, again and again."
How many decisions have I made under that un-comfortableness and uncertainty fog of fear, pain, or shame, or guilt, for example. And typically those decisions bring even worse consequences, at best. And in hope, the author continues with...:"But no cloud lasts forever. The earth and all that grows from it knows this well. So does the heart and everything that grows from it, in spite of all our very understandable pains."
There in comes the waiting. The 'faith'. The restraint.
That this "cloud" too, will pass.
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