You say that you are wandering...if so, you wander well because the message is clear and easy to follow. Thank you, once again, for your thoughtful and helpful words. You offer a perspective that I just was not seeing or could not see.
I have felt very caught up in a spiral lately; your words describe it perfectly. So, I am taking your advice, stepping back and seeing that the swirling thoughts in my head are, indeed, getting me nowhere of consequence.
You are also right about the risk of looking into the future too much...it is good because of the hope it brings but it can lead to expectations. As we have learned here, having and living according to expectations is usually a pretty bad idea.
Something I struggle to find is the ability to have hopes and desires for the future while not allowing those things to leave my grasp and become expectations, because that is where the trouble begins. Something to keep working on...
