Dear young lady, …Dear older lady… guard against eagerness and hurry, especially in prayer.

I only wish I had heard those words in my younger years that were seedbed for eagerness and hurry in all things! Even in well meant prayers. Nonetheless I receive that invitation, even now, in my winter years. And I will dare to believe the years of eagerness and hurry and all the lived in and through consequences will simply be part of the compost pile that is worked into this season’s seedbed for a new beginning. And yes, I begin again, slowly and content and smiling.