Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother
(Kahlil Gibran)
I love sitting around a table and chatting, it is so warm and friendly, there is no chance that people will keep one ear on the conversation and one eye on whatever is going on around them. There is eye to eye contact, there is fellowship, you can just "feel the love". I would rather sit and read at a table than on the sofa, for me it is just more comfortable.
A few years ago my ex husband ( it feels soooooooooooooooo good to be able to say that) built a little corner at the bottom of the garden, for me....... and then he filled it with masks he KNEW that i do not like masks but there they were hanging on the walls a constant reminder of what was wrong, of the evil that was slowly evading our marraige, and our lives, just like the wooden voodoo idol he had in our bedroom that at every opportunity I would put in the drawer, and the next day there it was again, mocking me.........
A few weekends ago, I was in mission mode.............. again................. and decided that my little corner had been dark and angry for long enough, so I removed the masks, I prayed over the corner, and then I had a brain wave, I decided to paint the walls a bright colour to warm it up, when my sister was here to visit we decided on green, and so a couple of weeks ago I bought the paint............. I love to paint......... and this is the result................
I am having a small sign made and calling my new solitude corner "Contemplation Corner"
over the past days I have spent quite a lot of time here thinking............... just being quiet and listening to the birds, listening to the silence, and being quite far from the house, there is no disturbances, a place where I can talk and listen to My Father............
I am so seldom alone, that it is so special and so important for me to take time every now and again to be quiet, I feel that society is discouraging us from thinking, it keeps us busy filling our lives with "stuff" to do, I more and more hear children say they are bored, I was never bored as a child, we could entertain ourselves, in fact I am never bored now, because just sitting and contemplating is enough for me, I don't need games, books, people, computers to keep me busy, solitude and quiet and God is what keeps me going.............
I think I will tell my friends about it, so that when they need to get away for a few hours, and have no where to go........... they can come to "Contemplation Corner"
