Favorite Quotation

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
...Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Marianne Williamson

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Fire Alarms

So this past week I have been thinking. Comparing different situations and actions actions in my life to a fire alarm. Why? You might ask, well you see the battery in one of our fire alarms is going low and so it makes a beep every ten minutes.

This leads me to reflect on everything in terms of alarms. The steady annoyingly simple beep is just letting us know that although nothing is wrong if we do not take action soon something could go very wrong. *To be honest in my time living in Logan there have been three occasions that I have been happy that fire alarms exist and are installed in my house*

One of the other noises that a fire alarm gives off is complete silence. Quietly letting everyone within earshot know that everything is ok. The last is the ear defining noise that can be heard if their is smoke in the air around the alarm.

For most of my life I have lived in one of the two extremes, either I have felt that there is no danger or that something is so off that immediate action must be taken. Right now, for about the last 6 to 9 months I have felt something is slightly off. Not so much that I am in danger but more of just one thing must be fixed and once it is everything will be all right. Now I just need to figure out what it is that needs to be fixed and be done with it.

Oh and also I need to remember to buy a 9V battery so that the real fire alarm will stop beeping.
Posted by Derek at 4:00 AM

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