Day 138o: Yet another roadside Homestead … (September 14, 2019)
I woke still very late into the darkness (which was actually still very early the following morn) and knew it was already time to move on. So I smiled and stretched and packed my small bag and drank some water from the church’s spigot and then proceeded slowly onward along the now completely deserted (and delightfully peaceful) Lee Highway roadway. It didn’t take that long for me to make it to the near outskirts of the town of Abingdon, where I serendipitously (and some would say synchronously) saw the Pilgrim Baptist Church up on a hill to my right, and easily chose to amble steadily up to its front doorstep to sleep there for just a few more hours of this not-yet-brightening day …
“It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for … And harboring a great &underlying sense of gratitude is what allows us to more fluidly recognize the same. Indeed, unconditional gratitude – a gratitude not for benefits accrued or successes attained but rather simply for being given the chance to be consciously alive at all – seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow invisible to us before that shift … In truth, serendipity is not the product of patience or faith or humility or just reward. Serendipity (what some also call synchronicity) is actually flowing constantly upon and around us, and it is our recognition of the same that is refreshed anew in those moments we choose to re-cognize our interconnected place in it all – while acting in humble accordance therewith.”~ inspired by Lois Bujold, Earl Nightingale & Audrey Moralez
“We’re all in the same boat, my friends, and we can either chose to sit in the corner and sulk our lives away, crying about the abject unfairness of it all and bemoaning how everyone is making us miserable, or we can do exactly the opposite. We can stand up and smile away our worries and disregard our injustices and simply BE GRATEFUL – for everything. We can look back and see how many obstacles we’ve already overcome, realizing that with each one of those now transcended conquests we’ve become stronger people as a result. We can realize that our happiness is not and should never be dependent on others, and that none of us is ever going to get out of this Story alive. So make the best of the time you have, my friends, and do so by making a positive (i.e. a more peaceful) difference in the world.” ~ inspired by Pamela Morris
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