When I joined MN, I was very much struggling with my life as a whole.steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Thu May 20, 2021 10:29 am I look at my Christian walk (career?) and look back at the times when I was thriving as a person, and also the times I was merely surviving.
A good lumberjack that saws trees down can look at the rings on a tree and determine what kind of life that tree had: what years were wet, what years were dry, sometime even into more depth than that.
I've been journaling for 15+ years now and when I add notebooks to the box where I keep them, I often go back and shuffle through the older ones: looking at the times I was filling a notebook once every ten days, and the times that a notebook lasted all summer. I can tell when I was blessed and really "in tune" with my spiritual side and was ambitious in life's various projects. I can also tell when I just struggled to get through the days/weeks.
I'm very much in a thriving place these days, feeling very blessed. But I am also learning that I may be in a time of significant change.