Refocussing the Spirit...

Sometimes, my heart races...

I cannot stop moving, yet I feel I'm in slow motion. My creativity is shot, for a spell. Therefore, anxiety increases...

I don't know why, every now and then I do this. But I have learned some tools to get out of it.

Some things that refocus my spirit are:

• Baking biscuits; enough for everybody around me. Making, and giving, for no particular occasion, just out of a love of life is a sure way to revitalise your mind and heart.

• Reading George MacDonald to myself in the afternoon sun, or by lamp light in the middle of the night. Whenever I go to him, he blesses me with a peace, a knowledge and a rekindled inspiration for a new day...

• Walking up "my" Mt Painter is another tool to calm to soul. The pure determination it takes to get up there is like a restart button for my mind. Everything is clearer when encompassed in God's creation like this...

• The last of these, is perhaps the most helpful. It's bringing myself here, to you. Where I read blogs, and share my own heart in this little piece of blog space... The friendships I have made are so special, go beyond flesh and can be relied upon to refocus a spirit on the cloudiest of days.

Blessings to all this beautiful day! And may your spirit sing at the thought of a blessed life, in this beautiful world.

Shell xx