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Floods and Other Diversions

Knowing What We Don't Know

The End of the Line
I was amused by a story told by a friend of mine about her search for lost eyeglasses. She knew she had misplaced them somewhere in the house but when her exhaustive search yielded nothing she finally gave up and dug out a second pair she happened to have. Her reading done, she then pushed them up on top of her head where, in her words, "they joined the original pair" of eyeglasses. Lately, I have been wondering if all our searching to become "enlightened" or "spiritual" isn't quite similar in nature, that is, we are searching for something which has been with us all along. We are what we are, aren't we? We  simply miss that because we use a c

Forgiving, Redefined
As I recently listened to an acquaintance talk about her ex boyfriend, the cruel things he'd said upon their breaking up, what a miserable attitude he has, how much he'd hurt her and so on and so forth, we came to the most amazing part of the conversation, the part where she said that she forgave him because he was just, well, an unfeeling ignorant person, not worthy of a second thought. It was this conversational exchange that got me to thinking about the idea of forgiveness and how we apply it in our lives.