Soul Attention

Good morning!  Saturday is here!  This morning's reading has to do with success.  I love what Judith Lasater has to say: It is not the possession of accomplishments that is the problem: rather the problem is the belief they are the answer to an aching soul.  She also suggests making a list of my successes over the last six months - which I will do and I hope many are answers to my aching soul rather than achievements of a worldly successful nature.  As I develop my elder status, I am finding more time for listening to my soul aches and responding with total attention and love.  It's the attention that is so very difficult for me - I am so well trained to DO something.  All the time my soul is asking simply for my attention.  That's what meditation is for.  It's time now  - before breakfast, before yoga, BEFORE, not after.