Stream of Consciousness (15)

Blog 211:

7:15 … What triggers annoyance? 

     I wondered early this morning about a psychological explanation to someone’s frustration, but could just not pinpoint an answer quite easily.   When that happens, especially to someone with whom you live with, the situation is just doubled.  It happens all the time.  Someone grudges over something, and the entire household is put on check to either aggravate or pacify it.  Annoyance is definitely NOT anything that anyone invites to linger.

8:50 … ‘Goal projections lately, anyone?

     I’ve been stymied lately regarding a dream-project.  The feeling is both unkind and energy-hindering.  I had dreamed of getting started soon with a benevolent project that might also bring profits … materially, that is … but resources at the moment are odds.  Projections are that I must wait two to five more years to get it launched.  I just could not accept the reality these days.  How do I go about redirecting energies toward its fruition?  Perhaps, lowering expectations is a first step, followed by fact-finding and consulting others in the know.  The negative energies must go away if I or anyone else hopes to get forward-moving!

10:48 … ‘Seen images of God around?

     My recent travel to Asia overwhelmed me in good and no-so-good ways.  From people to places, from personal and vicarious encounters, God’s images abound, and continue to be reflected while we go about our daily lives:  an aging mother tends to an older son who worked graveyard shifts in hopes of getting both his daughter through college,  and his ‘challenged/special son’  into a vocational trade;  a couple dedicate their life to reaching, and building up lives of children with disabilities; a woman cut short of her income-generating years, finds contentment through embroidery projects that she gives as gifts or sells to make meager resources; a young family gets beyond ‘economic survival mode’ after re-arranging its financial spending and addressing debt reduction; an immigrant takes grueling hours to learn the language of her not-so-new environment anymore, but one that continuous to challenge her existence due language barriers; countries, still in the developing stages after many years of independence from their colonizers, dig out from their day-to-day challenges of economic boost, social ill eradication, educational growth …

     God’s work continues despite our combined misuse of resources, apathy, irresponsibility and selfishness!