I am a quirky thinker and I love to write....different perspectives enthrall me and I am sharing a few of mine here, would love to hear yours! Beware...I get 'journalish' sometimes!
Today I moved on from something I truly loved, A community I created, a job that gave me a beautiful home. Crossing paths with people has never meant more to me, Kindered spirtis, lifelong friends, they showed me goodness everyday. Its incredibly painful but my heart is full of gratitude How can a job mean so much? It did, and I can only say thank you. But now I know that jobs can indeed mean so much, And I will never be the same again.
My annual trips to India include a sojourn to Pune where I spent 10 very formative years of my life - the early two being life changing. It is here that my parents, puzzled about what to do with my life as well as some sincere intentions to give me worldly education, sent me to board and educate myself at the nationally revered Fergusson College in Pune. I was all of 15 when I said goodbye to everything stable in my life - mom's food, dad being at my beck and call, friends and plays, the television, and my bed. I was the center of my universe as well as two other people who I served as the life purpose for. And now I was one of many many girls living up to the rules of an dictator like elderly couple who hated anything developed post 1985. Queuing up every night to receive a spatula full of lentil and rice and the much in demand buttermilk, I doubted my existence. I shared the room with two other girls who clearly despised my because of my always somber disposition....
During this unprecedented time in human history, I am thinking of Sabbath often. I am not sure how it came into my consciousness, but it dropped there and hasn't left. Maybe I do. I have been asking the universe what this of this truly means. Through the vagaries of life, I have encountered surprise and wonder but not disorder and meaninglessness. There is always an order, a balancing of energy as shifts happen. Then I read the word Sabbath somewhere, and it has been following me or the other way around. I do not know much about it or I didn't till a few weeks ago. And then the world started locking down and I could hunker and read and absorb more about the sacredness of this day. Sabbath comes from the word Shabbath which means a day of rest . I have never quoted scripture before and I apologize if I goof up, but the metaphorical meaning was just so powerful, I had to write it down. “By the seventh day God had finished the w...
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