Dig-N-DelveIn ancient times, many writers, Cicero, Augustine, Boethius and countless others wrote in prose and in parallel format, in this quaint and rather minute effort, I will share a bit. A) Pardon me and my collected artifacts…I am in search of something.  What is that you ask?... What I am I search of ?...Why,…why… I don’t rightly recall!..Let me sit a while and think.Hmmm…? Hmmm....?  I must say that I am beside myself, why I have forgotten what it was.Very well, oh but please… sit and chat with me won’t you?  Comfy?  I don’t rightly recall why I am searching, I just know that I have lost something along the way, and believe perhaps this is where it was…yes…yes, I do at that!Would you care to join me? I have nothing to offer except a portion of the booty which exists within this area…What is that you say? No time?...Do you not have the time?  For I see by your device there that you’ve segmented yourself across the day; …is that proper? Oh how we have come to move at such a pace that we have lost things along the way; for we scurry about accompanied by fritter n’ fret.  Tell me now what has brought you here? B) Let me sit for a moment in my chair, and as I sat, at me he began to stare. “My friend are you in need?”  For I saw all sprawled across his countenance was greed.I quickly thought to myself what shall I say to change his mind; what did he need to become kind?I needed something to quickly change his mood, yes that’s it, perhaps something about gratitude.My fingers began atop the chair’s arm to strum, in unison with a tune I found to hum. C) My friend, have you read the Devout Life by Francis la Salle?  For in it, in Book 3 he writes that about something Meister Eckhart states: “ If we listen we turn within, and if we look, we turn without.” I could not agree more, for when we listen, we indeed tend to turn our attention within, mulling it over, checking it, and assessing its value, yet when we begin to look, our attention is on everything out side ourselves and simply begin to scan.I have come to realize that some things which are essential in bringing peace into my soul.  One is that I am to enjoy the journey and not just anticipate the arrival. For I do not yet know place of my destination nor truly what awaits me.  Thus, being accompanied by “fritter n’ fret” I am not properly prepared. Another is the need to follow the proper passage, for if not, I will surely be diverted onto another course, which may bring me there, yet it is not as enjoyable nor beneficial.b)  As he pondered the thought, I asked him what it is that he brought.  “What is that you ask?... You have for me a task?”“No, no…I asked what it is within the sack, which you had slung over your back?”“It is all that own…it is what I have become,… you know…now that I am grown.”I asked him,” have you something for which to atone..now that you say you’re all grown?”“You’re remark, if I might say, is a bit rude.”“I am sorry, I replied…I just thought there’d be a bit of gratitude.”a)  As I sat back into my chair, the thought came to me that it is this that we are to have.This attribute of gratitude, in this month and through out the year.  And so my spiritual friend, here is where I will leave off, and follow up in the new year.With gratitude and cheer! Peace, Bro Smith SGS http://Revelationinsight.tripod.com