[Magdalen] Life's challenges

[Marion Thompson]

Breathe in, breathe out, one box at a time.  Must remember that. :-)
Marion, a pilgrim
On 2/26/2015 1:30 PM, Catharine Phillips wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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