Frightening times...

Dear little house of my soul called “Blog”. I haven’t abandoned you, really. Forgotten you? Never. You know that!

I have been busy… busy busy—at times frightened, grumpy, teary and sometimes… sometimes I just sit around and think and pray… pray for the world, for those who are suffering and for the protection of those I love. But mainly, I work…

Did you know dear little house of my soul called “Blog” that I’ve been back to a regular office work? Yes, I have. For a while now. My entire days consist of being in a cubicle in front of a computer. Of course, with the amazing luck of now being situated just right across the floor-to-ceiling windows, outlooking the landscape outside where mourning doves sit on tree branches and robins make their nests and serenade my days…

Walls are high enough to shown me away from the view outside while I’m sitting down, but I can still see the sky above and if I stand or go around my cubicle, all those amazing windows are there… always letting all that light in, nourishing my soul and caring for my plants. And the most amazing thing of all this is: Gloria can’t shut these shutters on me anymore. No sir!

You see, this is my new space now. But it wasn’t so when I first started. Our office space was rearranged at the beginning of this year and some of us got to be moved around. I ended up sitting here now, right at a corner angle facing the northern windows with no other cubicles alongside. What luck!

My previous office space was situated on the other side of our office, outlooking only the parking lot and I was neighboring with Gloria. Every morning when beautiful sunlight was pouring in filling each space with joy and blessings, Gloria would stand up and shut the shutters with a heavy hand, leaving my little space in shadows. What disappointment that used to be. But that is in the past now. 

Dear little house of my soul called Blog, didn’t I told you it wasn’t going to be easy working with people again? It isn’t, and it never will be, but here I am… how lucky can I be! To have this amazing spot now, away from Gloria and from everyone else… it is like having my own little garden where I can just be. 

Although I may be still surrounded by others and people’s cubicles are still all around me, mine sits in this precious corner along those open large windows that nobody cares to shut on me… 

I tried to make my little office/cubicle as cozy and as close to my personality as much as I can. So, I have filled the space with plants, books and little lights, just like I do at home. Supervisors and people love it, and even come around from time to time just to see and feel the coziness of my little home outside home. 

This past Wednesday we were finally sent home. After our State Governor issued a mandatory closedown, we sent out messages and shut down phones and computers. Before 5:30 pm everyone was out of the building. These are scary times we’re living. At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. These are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. The outcome depends in Whom we have believed!

Stay safe, wherever you are!  And God bless!