Advices and queries, 3
May. 18th, 2019 11:52 amThe world is hurting me at the moment. Everything bad and dark and scary seems ten times bigger than it did a few days ago. The planet's fucked, the country's fucked, the NHS is fucked, my mental health is fucked. It hurts.
I have no answers. Faith can have some comfort. For that reason, I thought I'd write about the next passage from Advices and queries and try to turn my mind from the awfulness for a while.
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I have no answers. Faith can have some comfort. For that reason, I thought I'd write about the next passage from Advices and queries and try to turn my mind from the awfulness for a while.
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Apr. 4th, 2019 04:42 pmIt's interesting how small things can be experienced in a profound and meaningful way, if they catch you at just the right moment. I was walking past some woodland earlier today and saw this little blackthorn about two feet tall that had put out such beautiful blossom and it just hit me with a sense of hope and wonder. I've recently had a depressive episode that I'm now coming out of and I've been feeling kind of fragile, and somehow this just lit everything up for a moment. Something about that little blackthorn tree seemed to whisper that things were going to be OK.
So that's my happy moment from today.
So that's my happy moment from today.