Winter Solstice
I have been side tracked for several months due to life catching up with me. Now I am back and trying to to get a handle on my life and on my blog/website. In October an unfortunate lightning strike affected the host and caused my site to crash. I was on vacation (I actually allowed myself to take a vacation and not do anything of a business nature which includes this website.) I have been working on and off since late October to get the site back to the condition it was in when I went on vacation in late September. I am not there yet, but it now resembles the former site. Now I have to take it to new heights.
Yesterday was the shortest day of the year. Here in western Washington that meant a very short period of daylight. Fortunatelyey not a short as Anchorage, Alaska. I spent a bit of time looking at our yard and garden and the strange beauty of the liveless trees with no leaves and the garden plots of stubs of plants and bare ground waiting silently for the spring. Of course I know that the plants are busy growing their root systems to enhance the start of the new growing season. I guess that is what I have been doing for the past few months. I feel a lot calmer and I am trying to take one thing at a time without worrying about the things that I am not working on (real estate, ebay, family projects, and church planting).
With Christmas just days away, I have been taking stock of my life, my family, and the effect the economy is having on us. I would like to believe that all is well, but like so many others, our lives are definitely affected by the economy. Years ago Peter Sellers starred in a movie, the name of which I cannot remember, where he played a simple minded man who was turned out on the street when his father died. Through a series of events he winds up as the house guest of a very wealthy person who is frequently called upon by the president for advice. His simple mind cannot see beyond the garden he had spent his life in. The irony of the story is that he makes very simple statements like the one I did a moment ago about the plants being busy growing roots during the winter season and Peter Seller’s character is credited with deep thinking and great foresight concerning the economy and the state of the government. Perhaps that is where I need to be. Keep it simple and straight forward and keep minding the garden so it can flourish when spring brings back the growing season and the beauty of the garden plants. Perhaps the spring of the new economy is just around the corner and all is well.