David's Writing Practice

     Everything in life is part of a circle and flows in a an endless cycle. One aspect of life is the human being. It follows cycles within cycles. One cycle is the physical. We are born, we grow through our adolescent years into our adulthood. We grow old and will eventually pass away. Much like the seasons of the year we are always in one of them. Likewise, we have emotional cycles. We start out calm, then thoughts and emotions are energized by some triggering event. In an instant the cycle moves you into a state of laughter or pain. If allowed to be expressed and not trapped, emotion will eventually pass away just as our bodies in the physical cycle. Our breathing is yet another cycle that is essential. Without breath our bodies cannot be nourished with the oxygen for all of our cells to perform their cycles. It is interesting to meditate on some of the results of interfering with these cycles and not learning how to flow with them. For example, a person that does not...

     I did not realize how early it was until I got halfway to work this morning. I normally get out of bed at around 2:30 a.m. This morning when I rolled over to glance at the clock, I thought it said 2:34. So naturally, I drug myself out of bed. The next thing that typically happens is Jack meets me at the bedroom door. This time I had to whisper his name to get his attention. Another clue that led me to questioning everything was when I was driving on the highway. I noticed that there was an unusual amount of traffic this morning. At 3:30 a.m. there is typically very little traffic. But for some reason I attributed this morning's traffic to the upper end of the distribution bell curve and drove on. The next piece of valid information was Charles Stanley was not preaching on the radio. I normally listen to his sermon on my drive; however, this morning it was an unfamiliar preacher. I thought that maybe Charles was off today or that maybe they changed programming since O...