I’m ending 2012 exhausted and a little beat up. The flu has had us down the past few days (and subsequently up at night). Coupled with our Crazy Christmas, I feel like I’m limping across the finish of this year. Not really where I’d like to be, but it is where I am. If there’s any lesson I can take away from 2012 it is to be present, to engage with where I am NOW. I project into and plan the future too much. It’s sets me up to feel exactly as I feel now: exhausted.
Resolutions, goals, intentions all those words get tossed around at the end of the year. Quite frankly my problem is that I get too wrapped up in resolving to do this or be that. I set up goals and map out detailed plans as to how I’ll get there. And usually what I set my mind to I accomplish. I go and go and go and go. Right now what I need is rest, quiet, solitude.
Tomorrow morning I’m going to go to the woods. My woods. The trails I ran when I was in college. For me going into those woods is like going into a quiet chapel and kneeling in an empty pew. All is quiet. God is there.
–Sarah
We went snowshoeing in Kingman Farm yesterday, it was wonderfully peaceful (except for the roar of the wind overhead). Enjoy your peace! Be refreshed by it!
Love the poetic last line
Enjoy the quiet.
I like to refer to the woods as my chapel too. Nothing is more beautiful on a crisp winter day with freshly fallen snow to hear nothing but the silence of nature. Enjoy!
Happy New Year… feel better and enjoy your quiet solitude in the woods tomorrow!
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