Advance, Retreat, Advance...

So I have been on a little retreat, it doesn't always turn our exactly has you have planned but I love how it did turn out. I planned to write a lot but instead took a lot of photos. It was so nice to just be away from all the normal things you have to do and today this little retreat come to an end...

So in a few hours I will venture back into suburbia from the little piece of heaven in which I have been into the life race that I am in. I haven't come up with too many ideas of how I could transform my life to resemble even slightly what life is like up here in the country. It would involved not doing a lot of things in which I have no choice but to do...

So I need to find the places of solace in amongst the hustle and bustle of what it is. Looking through the eye of this camera lens has given me a new perspective on life too... I was taking photos which I could use on my Facebook pages and in my blog posts and what I discovered again is that the ordinary can be so magnificent if we change our glasses!

An old jewelry box which indeed was so special, and probably once prized has been relegated to a shelf on the window in the spare room. When I looked at it closely, it was SO intricate, the colours of the mother of pearl effect on it were so spell binding... and yet one such as this had possibly become more ordinary.

I wondered how many special things in my house, indeed my family and friends had been accepted as ordinary. When I look at them again afresh may I see with new eyes, open to the simplicity's and intricacies of the things right under my nose, at my fingertips and under my feet!

So as I transition from retreat to advance.... Lord please help me to stop and smell the roses and look at them again for the specialty that they are. Just subtly tucked away from the conscious gaze of the people that pass by, particularly me... busy as I may be!

Love 

~\Cam/~

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A slice of heaven on earth...

I'm away at my friend's place in the country this week. It's honestly a little slice of heaven on earth. I came by myself to spend some quiet time reading, writing, perhaps painting, and just getting some alone 'me' time.

Even though I spent the first several days here on my own I still feel as if time keeps on slipping into the future (sounds like a song title doesn't it?) and I am missing using it the way I want even though its me using my time. Always so much to do and so little you know what!

Part of my plan of coming away was to write, to read, to rethink my current life schedule. You do realise we all have a 'life schedule' that keeps us ticking along. It is a good thing but when it gets a  bit lop sided its time to straighten it out again.

I wish I could bend time and squish more into it. I also wish I could just use my time at a pleasant pace and mozy along with it like the flow of a river, no such luck in this day and age! There is always something or someone to push you along like men that lead the dogs that drive snow sleds. What do they say to those doggies?  I think its 'Mush Mush'. My life gets so busy it seems like mush!

So far in trying to streamline my life 'procedures' I think I have somehow successfully added more into my day and taken nothing away from it. This is not what I want. Its like the movie title 'Something's Gotta Give' in the end it does, and if we don't do it for ourselves then somehow it gets done for us, and that is not the desired way to go about this.

Perhaps tomorrow when I wake up is a good time to really go over all of this and see what could give! I am sure there is some way to do it!

~\Cam/~