time for the essential

time off really does do amazing things for oneself. We often neglect ourselves as we are doing things for ourselves, if that makes sense. We work and study in order to improve our intelligence, to stretch ourselves and to add to a possibly brighter future...well sometimes that is why we study. but in doing so we get so wrapped up in ourselves that we end up forgetting about ourselves, maybe like Gareth said this evening in the sermon, we "respond to the urgent, neglecting the essential"...that rung so loud in my being...

this weekend was such a blessing for me. it wasn't anything amazing on the scale of going away on an exciting trip or seeing my family, if you see what I mean by 'anything amazing', it was more just a rejuvenating weekend where I got to experience just being, not really doing very much in the sense of doing 'the urgent', I focused on what I now feel fit to label 'the essential'...

...the mist outside and the evening air at the moment seem so very appropriate, its as if my weekend is being wrapped up, a weekend which has left me more open to love, more rejuvenated, maybe quite a bit more tender but more aware of the necessity of not neglecting the essential in order to respond to the urgent, which if you come to think of it will generally be achieved regardless of whether we deal with and give our attention to the essential...I don't know if I'm making any sense whatsoever this evening...but basically what I'm saying is...

1- we should all remember to not neglect the essential
2-just having a break to do the essential is vital
3-the mist outside has enveloped my weekend and its just beautiful to draw in
4-it was amazing to have a summer's day in the middle of winter
5-i love very much my friends and those people so important in my life
6-I think I'm getting carried away with the numbering various points which I actually haven't spoken about so technically shouldn't be under my section of "basically" ie in summary...
7-thats how many days there are in a week
8-I'm going to go to sleep pretty soon...just to finish off my weekend on a good note of getting decent amounts of sleep
9-that's how many sleeps I have until my last exam
10-that's how many sleeps I have til I start driving home!!! YAY for that!

anyways enough dilly dallying...now that's a strange phrase if you ask me! take a look at something that I took the time to notice and photograph yesterday as I was embarking on my weekend of the essential (the page captured has no relevance by the way)...