This post was written on November 27th and will not be posted for 30 days.
Today I decked the halls...with two Christmas trees. I have an 8-ft tree that I set up downstairs for the house church and then a 6-ft tree that I've set up in the living room. That pretty much sucked up the afternoon. Which, was a good thing. I'm needing to keep my mind busy. Too many days of vacation from work and school has caused my mind to be preoccupied with stuff that just causes me to worry. So...my zen moments usually involve keeping busy or sleeping. So, the sleeping I'll be doing directly after this. The sad part is, I realized that by the time this blog entry is posted, Christmas will be over and it will be time to take both trees right back down again.
During my tree trimming, it is tradition for me to watch a movie I associate with Christmas. Typically, I watch "The Holiday", but I decided I wasn't feeling that and watched "Serendipity" instead. One part particularly pricked my interest despite the fact I've watched the movie a million times. Jonathan (the main character) was talking to his friend on a flight to go be reunited with a woman he had shared just a few hours with several years ago, but kept a connection with for years. The friend had experienced issues in his own marriage and was inspired by Jonathan's passion. He quoted Epictetus, "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
In a lot of ways, that quote is so profoundly wise. If you're passionate, you don't care what people think. Passion is something that drives us. People don't often understand our passions or what we do to pursue them. We have to be content with that misunderstanding. We also have to embrace our passions and pursuit of them and be content with that no matter what other people think about our motivations.
Now that I've gone all Socrates, I should probably just go to bed so I can stop thinking. Ugh! 6 days until I can tweet again...maybe then I can get some of this stuff out of my brain.
Today I decked the halls...with two Christmas trees. I have an 8-ft tree that I set up downstairs for the house church and then a 6-ft tree that I've set up in the living room. That pretty much sucked up the afternoon. Which, was a good thing. I'm needing to keep my mind busy. Too many days of vacation from work and school has caused my mind to be preoccupied with stuff that just causes me to worry. So...my zen moments usually involve keeping busy or sleeping. So, the sleeping I'll be doing directly after this. The sad part is, I realized that by the time this blog entry is posted, Christmas will be over and it will be time to take both trees right back down again.
During my tree trimming, it is tradition for me to watch a movie I associate with Christmas. Typically, I watch "The Holiday", but I decided I wasn't feeling that and watched "Serendipity" instead. One part particularly pricked my interest despite the fact I've watched the movie a million times. Jonathan (the main character) was talking to his friend on a flight to go be reunited with a woman he had shared just a few hours with several years ago, but kept a connection with for years. The friend had experienced issues in his own marriage and was inspired by Jonathan's passion. He quoted Epictetus, "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
In a lot of ways, that quote is so profoundly wise. If you're passionate, you don't care what people think. Passion is something that drives us. People don't often understand our passions or what we do to pursue them. We have to be content with that misunderstanding. We also have to embrace our passions and pursuit of them and be content with that no matter what other people think about our motivations.
Now that I've gone all Socrates, I should probably just go to bed so I can stop thinking. Ugh! 6 days until I can tweet again...maybe then I can get some of this stuff out of my brain.
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