Tuesday October 13th - days of nothing much

The days have been drifting past... Sunday... Monday... now it's 9am on Tuesday morning

I haven't been doing much, mainly existing in a sort of limbo while rains outside and is sort of dull inside. 

I've also been feeling fatigued, not at all the same as tired, I might say. A sort of heavy lassitude, plus a bit short of breath, but I find this state od mind can switch on and off like a light, if one can only find the switch.

Yesterday's 'EverydayFaith' reading and reflection wasn't very encouraging at the beginning;

From the book of Lamentations chapter 2, verse 17

 My soul is bereft of peace

I have forgotten what happiness is

so I say, 'Gone is my glory,

and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.

The thought of my affliction and my

homelessness

is wormwood and gall.

My soul continually thinks of it

and is bowed down within me

Which I didn't find at all encouraging! But then came the next bit;

But this l call to mind,

and therefore I have hope:

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases,

his mercies never come to an end;

they are new every morning:

great is your faithfulness.

The Lord is my portion,' says my soul,

'therefore I will hope in him.

The Lord is good to those who wait for him,

to the soul that seeks him.

It is good that one should wait quietly

for the salvation of the Lord.

Aha! Aha! A light switch! Just the words I needed to show me a way out of the glums.

Later, as I was writing in one of the notebooks I swap with friends (sounds like a lot of notebooks, but there are only two) I seized hold of paints and brush and coloured a page.

I'll 'go in' with a pen sometime when I've an idea of what I'll do.

Hurrah! I feel like myself again!