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.
4 comments:
Yes, the tricky question of how to be happy as an individual - which is mostly all we have any control over - while knowing that others don’t have the luxury.
Common sense - and well researched fact - we’re all happier when others are too.
Hold fast.
Thea xx
That IS a tricky question, Thea, and one that does trouble me. But I was really thinking about how to make things better for the world when everything seems so awful. And just as happiness spreads, perhaps…so do peace-ful interactions and behaviour.
Hi sue! I must say I find it hard to talk about healing the moment because I worry that I sound pollyannish. But it feels true to me that what we do and how we live in our bit of the world affects all the rest of it. And that I must make my peace with what it is I CAN do. Lots love
Wonderful, thoughtful post and comments. Reassuring that it’s both possible and going on. How to move this to a wider platform so it becomes more the norm is the challenge.
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