When I get too busy

by Linda Settles
(Rustburg, VA)

Sometimes I get too busy to take time for myself; time to have my morning coffee and read my recovery literature, time to reflect on the positive things in my life, time to feel the solitude that makes room in my soul for bigger and better things.

That is when I have to say NO to the busy-ness that assaults me and remember that my healing is essential to success in everything else that I do.

And that is when I take the time to think of others, to pray for them and to drop a line here and there to encourage them.

There is a place in shadows soft
That calls to me amidst the gloom
of memories sad and treasures lost.
I'll make it there--I make it soon.

I'll silence all the ringing phones
So I can hear---inside my head
A voice that speaks to my heart alone
You are my child--won't you please come home?

Father? Not the earthly one
Who trampled me beneath his feet.
But the One who waited in the dark
And led me back to sanity.

3/1/08 Linda Settles

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