As I was driving home from Aldi this morning I was thinking about Gaza, which is usually on my mind either background or foreground, and I was thinking about a friend who told me they prayed for peace.
I said I couldn’t believe in praying for peace, although I did believe in praying for individuals. And that made me think of something I read on Di McDougal’s blog this week. “We can’t heal the world but we can heal the moment.” (Link to Di’s blog at the side of my blog.)
But I remembered it wrong…I remembered it as “We can’t bring peace to the world but we can bring it to the moment.” I am easily angered these days, which I think comes from frustration at world politicians, and their refusal to listen to the people they are supposed to represent. This frustration comes out towards other people in the immediate environment, people who have merely done small forgivable things that irritate me. So I’m going to try to keep in my mind both of these sayings.
We can’t heal the world but we can heal the moment.
We can’t bring peace to the world but we can bring it to this moment.
By the way…
This is the painting I brought home from the Contemporary Landscape course.
It’s popular on Instagram and yet I can take it or leave it. I mean…I think it’s ok as a painting but I wouldn’t want it on my wall.
