Laying It Down

Good morning, Bonjour, Buenos dias, Nzuri asubuhi!  Yes, it is a beautiful morning!  All of me feels energetic and alive and I thank my God for that!  My mind is happy with life! 

There are some things that I’ve been trying to do for years and cannot say that success has found me.  No, I am not considering that great job, the house that becomes my home, the man that becomes my man or the family that it is too late to create.  Those are other thoughts to share, maybe.  I am writing about only three things and they are everyday things, almost universal goals, that I find to be profound and rather difficult; praying, journaling and being grateful.  From all my readings and discussions it seems that when these things are done pragmatically, great depths of our soul are reached, even nirvana.  Well, I am not even near!  Or am I?  Perhaps if I stopped thinking that I have to attain these goals according to the definitions or the paths described by others I would be cool with what I am doing in respect of these three.  So in sitting down to think about it and what I know, this is what I found.  I know that I am constantly talking to God, saying how I feel, an