Taking stock of our past can help us decide the next direction of our life’s journey.
Contemplating how our decisions have created our present circumstances can bring clarity and self-understanding. We can then envision where the path we’re on today may lead us tomorrow.
A little self-reflection can give us the knowledge and confidence to follow a new direction or stay the current course.
We can also fully absorb the blessings that have come to us and give thanks for what we’ve created.Reflect on your life’s journey thus far and decide where you’d like to go next, and you can plan for a year filled with manifestations, personal growth, and happiness.
Source: Daily OM
I knew I was already "Home" . . . I just had to rearrange my life and create an entirely new one for myself.
The path that led me to that place did not prepare me for those changes. It felt like I was walking the fires of hell, not even thinking there was a path I needed to follow, just taking one moment at a time. Sitting in a dark room as day turned into night was my indication of time passing, otherwise I would not have noticed.
I can relate to the lyrics of the, Home By The Sea by Genesis . . . so many lines are familiar! However, "picking up the pieces, putting them away" most comes to mind. It is what happens when drastic life changes pop up when least expected.
The Captain and I have been through a lousy year or two . . . seems like we can't catch a break, but I know this too shall pass. It just gets me down and discouraged at times. Self-reflection takes me back to that place of real despair in my life, not knowing where that path is going to lead. No longer do I walk that path alone.
Today I am feeling so blessed and grateful although I still have diminishing blahs . . . at least they are passing. I can feel it. All is not hopeless, we have just experienced one bump in the life's road after another, primarily health issues, car and home repairs. Things that make up a life! We don't have to like them and some of us don't deal as well as others. That is human nature!
Pictures of my life that roam around my thoughts have made me feel so blessed and grateful for all that I have today.
Home By The Sea | Genesis
Creeping up the blind side, shinning up the wall
Stealing through the dark of night
Climbing through a window, stepping to the floor
Checking to the left and the right
Picking up the pieces, putting them away
Something doesn't feel quite right
Help me someone, let me out of here
Then out of the dark was suddenly heard
Welcome to the Home by the Sea
Coming out the woodwork, through the open door
Pushing from above and below
Shadows without substance, in the shape of men
Round and down and sideways they go
Adrift without direction, eyes that hold despair
Then as one they sign and they moan
Help us someone, let us out of here
Living here so long undisturbed
Dreaming of the time we were free
So many years ago
Before the time when we first heard
Welcome to the Home by the Sea
Sit down, sit down
As we relive our lives in what we tell you
Images of sorrow, pictures of delight
Things that go to make up a life
Endless days of summer longer nights of gloom
Waiting for the morning light
Scenes of unimportance like photos in a frame
Things that go to make up a life
Help us someone, let us out of here
Living here so long undisturbed
Dreaming of the time we were free
So many years ago
Before the time when we first heard
Welcome to the Home by the Sea
Sit down, sit down
As we relive our lives in what we tell you
Let us relive our lives in what we tell you
Sit down sit down
Cause you won't get away
So with us you will stay
For the rest of your days. so sit down
As we relive our lives in what we tell you
Let us relive our lives in what we tell you
Songwriters: RUTHERFORD, MICHAEL/COLLINS, PHIL/BANKS, TONY
Home By The Sea lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
