Lots of things to wrap up this morning. I get my teeth cleaned this afternoon. Then I want to go to Dairy Queen with Rob and get their special Blizzard, S’Mores. I do love their blizzards. I usually get the Butterfinger one, but today, something different!

I notice that on every available surface I have put sticky notes, random piles of papers, grocery lists, things to watch on Netflix. I could go on….you have your own rat’s nest of stuff that at the moment seemed important, but so far never has.

After coffee, I begin to move around the house, looking at the piles and deciding what to keep and what to throw away. If I don’t do this, things will just get messier. Overall, I am a neat freak, although not a clean freak. Disorder bothers me, but dust, not so much.

Before I began, I sat down with a Teresa of Avila writing, from which I will quote parts:

“Every moment can be a prayer.”

Absolve yourself of missing the mark again and again.”

Waste no time. Enter the center of your soul.”

We generally live in our heads rather than the center of our soul, don’t we? We carry on imaginary conversations and feel all kinds of negative emotions arise.

It is time to forgive ourselves.

And when we forgive ourselves, we are, at the same time, forgiving others. That is the way it works.

Vicki Woodyard