"Wherever you are, be all there." - Jim Elliot
I read this quote yesterday and just loved it. I have found myself telling my children something similar in reguards to texting and answering their phones all the time. I think they are missing out on the moments where they are. Be where you are. You are missing things around you by being so distracted by other things.
I need this advice, too. Worrying can take me out of the present. I can miss out on so much. I can be thinking about what needs to be done, what I am making for dinner, difficulties with my children, financial problems. I can think that the grass is greener somewhere else.
"Wherever you are, be all there."
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I have been feeling partially absent lately. Where do I find the rest of myself? Truthfully, between seasonal allergies and hormones, I think I know where my brain has gone.
I finally read one of Elisabeth Elliot's books about a year or so ago. I have a very hard head sometimes and she is so matter of fact that I have often found her difficult to hear. But,... I am learning. :)
Did you intentionally delete that last post?
I had coffee this morning, intentionally. And I am thinking on what you wrote here yesterday. How intentionally do I do the things I do? It is a good thing to ponder.
Yes, I did, Martha;-) Not sure why. It just didn't seem to come out like I wanted it to, so maybe I shall try again.
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