How do you see your life? Recently as a family we were discussing Rick Warren's book "The purpose driven Life", and what he writes about how we see life. The image that we have of life is our life metaphor, and can give us a handle on the way we see our life. The metaphor that sprang to my mind was of life being a journey.
Why a journey? Because hopefully we are always moving, not stagnating or going backwards, but going on and growing into new things, facing and overcoming new challenges and being transformed from "glory to glory". It is a metaphor that gives me hope that I am not the same today as I was yesterday, nor will be tomorrow. On that journey I walk together with others, some for a long time, and others for only a short time, and when I'm feeling weary these fellow travellers encourage me and make sure I'm staying on the right path.
This metaphor also takes on a whole new meaning as we prepare as a family for a major move. In January we will leave our comfortable apartment on the sunny "Costa del Sol" to form part of a community in Madrid. Big adjustments and changes in store, but at the same time the excitement of seeing God leading into new territory.
One of the aspirations I have for this blog is that it will help me to reflect on and chart where life's journey is taking me.
What about you? What would you say is your life metaphor? I would love to hear what you come up with!
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Dear Doreen
Your life is deffinetly a journey. Kim and I just celabrated 15 years of marrige. We went down to wellington for the weekend. Through our married life we have had good times and bad times. We have celabrated together and cryed together. Sometimes wondered where God is in all of this. He has always been there though.
I think life is like TV. There are lots of programs and channels. If you try to watch all of them nothing makes sence. You need to choose something then stick with it no matter what. Kim is still my favorite TV girl, and I be sticking with her. And by the way when kim and I have been married 30 years I will only be 52, cool aye!
Maybe it is time to get the remote and change the channel of your life to what is really important, God bless from Paul Riedel
Dearest Dorien,
Yahoo! You started a blog.... excellent work!
For a metaphor about life....hmmm... that´s deep... The first thing that comes to my mind is what Forest Gump recites as his mother´s ideaology: "life is like a box of chocolates... you never know quite what you are going to get!" Make that sounds to frivial... but I can agree that life isn´t doesn´t always turn out the way you imagine it...haha!
loveyou
Ally
How lovely to hear from you Doreen. In fact, there have been two instances in the last few days that brought you all to mind: first, my mother and I were talking about the Alexander Technique which reminded me of you and Paco following a course in our Milton Keynes days; second, I was unpacking the debris of my old office into my new office here in London and came across two small packages, one green and one orange. They were the little glittery shoulder bags I bought for Daniela and Stephanie from a beautiful small gift shop in Granada during my visit in March 2004! If you remember, flash flooding prevented our planned second meet-up prior to our departure from Malaga! I hope the unsent packages are not a metaphor for my life, but if I can lay aside for a minute the guilt and the frustration I felt when I discovered them, I guess what I would like to allow that to say to me are two things: have a sense of urgency about doing the things you know matter in life; second: life is a gift but you have to unwrap it!!
P.S. I think the girls will have outgrown the bags by now. Any redemptive ideas about what I could do with them?!
With love and looking forward to a proper catch-up Doreen! Big hugs to all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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