Find satisfaction in him who made you, and only then find satisfaction in yourself as part of his creation. Augustine
Year: 2020
Lightbulb Moment
All along I have thought that the equation was: Self improvement = self liberation. I got it wrong. It’s the other way round.
WHAT IF?
I stop dwelling on my bad points and weaknesses? I believe there is positivity to be found in every situation? I can accept myself despite all my failures and inertia? I am able to discover changes within that I have refused to regard as significant? What if I don’t have to change so radially first to be able to accept myself? What if accepting myself is the only change I need right now ? What if loving myself is all that is required to place me on the first rung of that ladder to liberation? What if ? ………
WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED?
In my previous blog I wrote about the UK’s isolation from Europe courtesy of Brexit. How could I ever have predicted that this isolation would become universal and that what I feared for us Brits is being experienced across the entire globe. Oh, the irony. However, this pandemic will take its course and reach an end at some point in the future. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Brexit on the other hand is finite and has already been ordained and established and will be our immediate future possibly for generations to come. I also wrote that we cannot predict what…
ADIEU EUROPE
I’m trying hard not to think about it but I’ve had this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that I cannot ignore, try as I may. In a few hours, the UK will leave the European Union and Brexit will be official. After 3 and a half years of fighting, praying, incredulity, mental and emotional angst and turmoil, the day I had hoped would never come has arrived. It shatters all my beliefs and destroys my hopes and dreams for a united and peace-loving union between member states. I never fully realised until now how much of a…