4. F. pause and just focus on breathing letting thoughts go
3. Gr. That the construction is scheduled to end and for all the other things
2. TGT. I am alive; it is enough. Even if the construction were to go on forever, if I were alive, it would be enough.
1. I was strangely at peace last night. I know when the peace seemed to take over me although I think there are other things that contributed. Sometimes someone can hold a mirror up to you and you do not see what is actually in the mirror; maybe the mirror is held at an angle or maybe there is light reflecting from the side obscuring the vision.
It is the same with listening. Sometimes we do not hear what someone else is saying but rather what we think we expect to be hearing. Suddenly yesterday I had multiple examples of people talking and not listening. To truly listen, we need to look around the mirror to see the person behind.
The person may be painting a picture with words. Like any picture we can look at it in many different ways. We can insert ourselves into the picture which may distort how we see it. We can think the picture is reality too. Like all pictures, though, it is a viewpoint. We might look and see that it is a great priviledge to to have that viewpoint shared with us.
