music, cookies and snow

I have the making of chocolate cookies sitting on the kitchen counter...realized we are out of eggs. Dear husband has a few errands to do, so he's picking up the eggs needed. I straightened the house up and whilst I do that I listen to my favorite tunes...uh..rather loudly if one should ever knock at the door...you may need to stand on the door chime...I wont' hear the knocking. A friend of our son's is coming to clean off the driveway with his 'Bobcat'...we really need it done...it's not as though we haven't shoveled all winter...it's the fact that we need to move some large amount of snow so if we get a melt...it won't flood in our basement! Plus the snowplough that has been going down our street doesn't do a great job when it hits our driveway...we have a very large mound of snow that just about takes the bottom off regular cars....yikes. So this young fella is coming over to help out with that as well.
Quiet Saturday for the most part.

Some of the reading I have been doing....I share with you....
"our mind is busy with thoughts," says Nouwen in the Way of the Heart, while "the heart instructs us on what is. The renewing of our mind takes place through our hearts. He quotes Theophan, the recluse, who says, "To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever present, all-seeing within you. If we allow our mind simply to listen, we perhaps begin to hear our heart speak - faintly, beneath all the clatter. It says, I am so weary, so lost. I have no energy to redeem myself. How I long for rest."
Without continuing to write out each word....the author comes to the conclusion that during certain time...you just need to open yourself to let God come to you and let your heart go home.
Thus giving you the rest you need, surrounded in His love. Resting in His love, is not applying a spiritual formula to ourselves a kind of a fix-it. It is the essence of repentance. Laying down your false self, laying down our performance...and finding that His love surrounds us, ...that He simply loves us where we are. We begin to just "be", having our identity anchored in Him.
We become ontologically substantive...I love that word..ontological. It means the study of of the nature of being or reality. Gives you a new meaning to be one with God, huh? It's not suppose to be difficult...but with all the noises of the world humming in our ears/hearts/minds....if a person can just tune that out and quiet one's self and listen.........there it is, there He is.