I know I am making progress even though I am not actually going anywhere.
We (Americans, Type A's, etc...) have a hard time with that idea, stationary progress.
We want forward movement at all times.
Maybe we need to stay in one place.
Maybe that one place is the only place we will understand what we need.
A friend of mine posted this on his face book page:
"Everyone says that love hurts, but that’s not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these things with love, but in reality, LOVE is the ONLY thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again."
You see "Love" gets the blame and we want to run forward looking for a different love, a new love, but really we might never have even had Love. Love for ourselves, our God, our spouses- wasn't there to begin with.
It's easy to latch on the idea that progress involves moving on, running to something or from something but progress can be standing still and actually looking at what is around you or in you.
Learning that I can go to "beast mode" and burn calories like a fiend,
Learning that working on what is, might be smarter than trucking it to "what if".
Sometimes the view from your own front door is the most important one.
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