What will I find today?

 

Ellsworth Kelly, Plant Drawings

There was this geese incident I've written about before.

I write 

From Alan Jacob's micro blog, a link to a Palm Sunday sermon from Bernard of Clairvaux from Plough magazine.

It is not necessary for you to cross the seas, nor to pierce the clouds, nor to climb mountains to meet your God. It is not a lengthy road that is set before you; you have only to enter into yourself to find him.

This line reminds me of Buddhism/ mediation.  And, "you have enough" in general.

Before this in the sermon, though, there's this other line that interests me:

Now we must earnestly search out the road by which he comes, so that we may be able to go out to meet him as is fitting.

In my journal at about that time I wrote:  What will I find today?  I'm thinking about the attitude when I'm thinking that every day presents a new practical idea to find -- a tool, a buried treasure, a teaching, a gift -- that the universe provides...

Sometimes, like being stopped by the geese in front of the funeral home, stopping to think about what it means that the geese and I encounter each other here at this time.

The "stopping" isn't a bug of the day, but a feature.