I can’t help thinking that Sepp Blatter is probably now
regretting that he didn’t ‘quit while he was ahead as such. Lots of people were
telling him ‘enough’ but he didn’t listen. I see this all the time in churches,
something starts really well, but we’re not so good at ending things. We get
muddled up with duty, the show must go on!
The very first Christians on these Islands, the Celts had a really good
way of dealing with this. Because by and large they were based on Islands and
around the coast they had watched the tides, they understood the ebb and the
flow: the reality that everything has a natural rhythm a starting and an
ending. I’m hopeless at this; I’m a night owl and I seem to like, ‘raging
against the dying of the light.’ I won’t let the day go. But this is nonsense
since it goes anyway and I wake up bleary eyed each day, unprepared for a new
beginning.
So
there’s my thought for the day, let it go. If you are facing an ending, embrace
it, accept it. Nothing new will come until we learn to daily let go of the old.
For me personally there is a bit of an ending here, I need to give up on
thought for the day for a while at least, there are new adventures that I need
to embrace. May God bless you and yours
until we meet again. Or as the ancient Celts used to say, God be wi ye. (For those reading the blog... I guess I will continue blogging, just not my thoughts for the day!)
