Time And Tide...

So...

It's been quite some time since I last took some time to populate this blog... Can't say for certain when I'll be back again...  I suppose I shall make the most of it while I am here.

I was challenged to start this blog some time ago, and the tenor of the conversation and the blog was intended to foster deep, sometimes dark, but nonetheless, "delicious" thought. Truthfully, the blog was intended, at least in part, to fuel the conversations, and vice versa.

Since those conversations, people have come and gone in and out of my life. For some of this strange movement of people I take full responsibility. For others, well... as the saying goes, "Time and tide wait for no man..."

It is sad, but true, to say that I wish that I had done things differently. And had I made different choices, perhaps it would be most pleasant for connections to have remained in tact.  I mean... When it comes to this decision thing, you'd think I'd have it down by now... But still find myself being clumsy, foolish, and stupid sometimes.

Taking some time to think about it can bring me to the point of saying, "Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda..." , but I have doubts about that statement that's attributed to George Eliot... You know the one that says, "It is never too late to be what you might have been."

I mean... Isn't the point of the "Time and tide" maxim that second chances are not guaranteed? Isn't real life much more like the old Christian hymn "Once To Every Man And Nation"?

Don't get me wrong, I believe in second chances, but wouldn't it be more prudent to plan for the best, and make every chance count?

I mean... Maybe I should be preaching to my own choir of 1.

Maybe I've spent too much time in the shallows.

Maybe I need to dive deeper, and stay down longer.

Maybe I'll start writing this blog again...

And come up with some better decisions.

Digging...

I suppose I should return to this, once fertile, ground...
And provide some structure to my many meanderings of thought...

I mean, this blog was started with the intent of "living" beneath the banal and the superficial... "Beneath" I say, because that is where the "deeper" , more universal truth lies... That is where you will find the wisdom that transcends situations and deals with the deeper ethics of a life well-lived.
Before we can be lifted "up where we belong", we must go deep - the axe must hit the root.

Get Busy...

This life has been given to us that we might learn... learn and grow...

I've heard it said that every living thing grows, and when it stops growing, it dies.

As I think about humanity, and the tendencies that we have sometimes that leads us to, how shall I say, stall for time... You know that your present circumstances have all but depleted their usefulness, and that its time to get it and keep it moving, but you just seem to keep dragging your feet. As I think about these kinds of circumstances and situations, I am reminded of a line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption ... "Get busy living, or get busy dying."

Either you have to be about truly living your life (i.e., learning and growing), or you have to be about ending your life. The truth is whether we move fast, or slow, every thought, every word, every action (or inaction) tends to either life or death. Choose Life.

Maybe you're like me, maybe in the midst of your doing and/or undoing, you've lost sight of who you are. Maybe you've lost sight of who you were created and/or called to be. Maybe you've forgotten how to take a chance on you. If this is the case, then maybe you need to hear this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDjle63jGug (Click the link or copy and paste the url into your browser address line)

Maybe you just need a new day, maybe you just need to recognize that if you just look up, tomorrow's sun will let you know your life's not done (http://bit.ly/g8tMUK)

I'm A Soldier...

I'm A Soldier Today...