Father Thomas Keating

#1

"Silence 

is God's first language

everything else

is a poor translation.

Whatever we say about God

is more unlike God

than saying nothing."

Father Thomas Keating

#2 - I have a friend coming to stay with me this weekend and I am really looking forward to it, in fact I would say I need it.  She also is a friend that I sometimes write with over the phone and she has suggested we write together - also a perfect recipe.

#3 - I was planning to go speed dating tonight. However both speed dating events I signed up for this month were postponed, this one to my monthly poetry group night so I will not be going. When the first one happened my plans were redirected to another event that made sense. Tonight the only redirection I know of thus far is potentially cleaning my bathroom and making a grocery list, but I guess it is an "easier" evening.

#4 - My friend gave me a guitar this week. Yes that sentence is repeatable.  My friend bought/gave me a guitar.  I started playing guitar in 2010 and have had various guitars on loan during that time (or for a couple years not having one at all). And then Monday one appeared in my hands. 

 It sounds really good and I want to write a song, which I was doing until 2017, but then that dried up.  I still write poems, but songs have been elusive.  I don't know how anymore, but I'm trying, or attempting to try.  I am willing.

#5 - If you want to be free, if you want to heal your relationship with God, with others and yourself, enter your inner room—the office, where the Divine Therapy takes place.

Close the door so you don’t run away.

Quiet your interior dialogue so that you can listen to what the Spirit is saying to you."

Father Thomas Keating