[Magdalen] Life's challenges

[Catharine Phillips]

Prayers continuing, Marion. For strength and fortitude continuing, and time
to breathe and breathe again.
Blessings,
Catharine

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>


-- 
*Catharine Phillips, MA, MDiv, CADC*


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