Instinct vs. Internal Wisdom
Life can get fast...I mean really fast. It's hectic sometimes and the whirlwind of the material world can set us asail in unintended directions if we're not careful. I recently broke my ankle, just 5 days after burning 23 years of my journals (on New Years Eve 2023) containing heavy tones of despair, loss, fear, etc. Yeah, there were sweeter tones tucked in the pages, but most of it was lamentations. Is it coincidence that I broke my ankle after such a freeing sacrament? I tend to think that it was not. In the usual course of celebrating a new year, I found myself making lists of things I wanted to achieve, activities to put in my calendar and ways I could become more physically fit, more financially secure, more spiritual and overall a better person. All seemingly positive with the desire to start the year off on the right foot. I suppose I DID start on the right foot as I broke my left ankle forcing me to put a lot of weight on my right foot. When the event happened, I had