Today, like most days in my Awesomeverse,has been a long journey, living in the moment as much as possible.. From the total fail of still being full of snotty cold, to the triumph of seeing our Henry (similarly afflicted but much more so) get much better and doing a ton of house work almost effortlessly (which got me a heartfelt hug from our Rach, who usually despairs on that front). Late in the day some one close to us gave us some Game changing news, which isn’t very good and needs to be handled as gracefully as possible (so I won’t go into the details of what). It would be the sort of thing that could have driven me into a state of total panic, which I would loose myself in for months.(like what happened this time last year) Instead I have quickly regained my calm and assessed the situation for what it is. If nothing else it is going to bring about a change in my family’s day to day routine, and I hope that with clear heads and compassionate hearts we can do the best for all concerned.

While musing about this just now, the following snippet popped up and  resonated strongly with me:

“… but when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money— booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

W.H. Murray, , The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951)

Anyhoo, just when you thought things were settled in the Newt household, here we go again 😉