[Magdalen] Life's challenges

[Marion Thompson]

Start!  Ah, there's the rub.  If it weren't for the last minute, nothing 
would get done.  Good advice, though, which I'll try to listen to.  The 
world doesn't care that this is also Lent with three sermons to write 
and Lenten Study to lead and Stations and and and.

I know that there are much more serious challenges facing people on this 
list and those dear to them.  Real life and death challenges against 
which my problems pales.  And I do lift up prayers for our friends and 
neighbours in this place.  But I do know that I have a great load of 
high stress situations I've been carrying around: maintaining a 
unfailingly pleasant manner with Jim these last two and a half years as 
the divorce proceeds, the usual round of deaths and family concerns, our 
priest leaving and St. Peter's facing a really uncertain future, the 
concussion (still no taste or smell and a headful of white noise), and 
now this next huge challenge.

Anyway, it helps me to talk, so thanks for listening and thanks for your 
kind comments.  I'm not a solitary person (ENFP) and I hate hate hate 
that I have to make this cosmic change alone without someone  being part 
of it.  Still, it could be worse,  I know that, and I AM strong.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 2/26/2015 1:06 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> I think the important thing is to start now and work on it everyday, not
> thinking about "how will I get this done?" There is no point in thinking of
> the impossible.  One does not do the entire thing, for that cannot be done
> in one act.  All we can do is one box at a time. One shelf at a time. One
> drawer at a time.
>
> And resist the urge to rush.  Rushing means eventually something gets
> broken and someone sprains an ankle and the hard work becomes even harder.
>
> But start now. Not tomorrow --  Now. Don't rush, but start now.
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> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Marion Thompson
>>
>>   I really am not ready for this and will surely need prayers for strength
>>> and fortitude.
>>>
>> Oy -- short notice for lots of stuff. A wrenching challenge to be sure.
>>
>> Maybe you could hire someone with a truck and crew to take out everything
>> that's yours and place it in an economic self-storage room? Then when you
>> move, you can retrieve things like books and bookcases as you get settled.
>>
>> Jim Guthrie
>>