Acceptance

"May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us." - St Therese of Liseux

This quote is from an email I got, one of the annoying send-this-to-X-people-and-something-will-happen emails that make the rounds. It's oddly appropriate to what I've been thinking about this week, though. I don't know if synchronicity pulls things into our lives, or if we just notice things that have always been there because we're now thinking about them.

I would love to be at peace with myself, to be content with myself. I'm more that way than I ever have been, but it's still a struggle. It does feel like maybe I might be able to reach this someday, though. Part of that is that I'm starting to think that there might be hope for finding a career I love, something brought on my my continued reading of the Pathfinder book. This week I've been pondering decisions and choices. There's a chapter on decision making, with descriptions of decision making methods commonly used. Then Lore talks about free choice, about freely making a choice based on not using any decision making methods, but instead making a choice based on simply choosing. I'm still working my way through this concept, and I have to say it's both exhilerating and so frightening that I don't want to get it. So I'm feeling scared and hopeful rolled together. It's such a different way of looking at life.

So, in honor of all this, I'm calling my finished socks the "just the way you are" socks. I knitted the first one and it didn't fit quite right. Instead of making a second one the same way, I altered the pattern, and added a ribbed top across the foot to make it less baggy. It's not quite what I want, but the next pair should be (and might even match).

The earrings are just for fun, because most of my earrings (and everything else) are packed in a box, in a warehouse, 650 miles away.