Day 149l: Living a life of Fondness … (September 25, 2019)
“I left the streets again for the hills – for the shaded winding roads that seemed to flow through vast swaths of nowhere, and as the day melted into night I eventually chose a crumbly abandoned building in which to sleep. Another day – another walk – another random rest. I’ll never visit this particular here ever again, and I know it. And I remind myself that I need to remember that; I need to remember that these long days and longer miles filled with beauty and challenge and surprise and caring strangers will indeed one day come to an end. And though it’s not much lying right here alone in the dust on the floor of my roadside abode, I know with a great & profound certainty that one day I will look back upon this all with deep & heartfelt fondness.” ~ via Straybob
“Life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment instead of focusing on the privilege that we have been offered the same at all … Indeed, we fail primarily because we fail to live in the moment. We miss the laughter and the beauty and the awe and the joy that is ever alive in our midst, and trade them instead for stress and frustration and anxiety and anger. We forge ahead consumed with an upcoming destination while missing the journey that only meanders through here and now. In a sense, we’re taking God’s precious gift of presence and telling Him it isn’t what we want, that we don’t have the time – that we’d prefer to finish the journey easily than live fully along the way.” ~ inspired by Craig Lounsbrough & Cindee Snider
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