A Fresh Look at Life…

January 1, 1970

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Sometimes if would be well if we could step aside and see ourselves as if we had never seen us before – and see not only ourselves, but see also things around us, free from the tired impressions we

have of places and people. Our thoughts, our lives, often become imprisoned by the commonplace, by

the familiar look of familiar things. It would be well to take a fresh new look not only at ourselves and

our surroundings, but also to look at our loved ones, whom we sometimes so much take for granted. It would be well to take a fresh look at the loveliness of each new day; at the place we go when the day is done; at the walls we live within. The places we live in and the people we live with are not prefect (as we ourselves are not perfect). They may not always be at their best (as we ourselves are not always at our best). But it would be well at times to look at them as if we had lost them – and then suddenly saw them there. So often we succumb to the commonplace. Much boredom, pessimism, much discouragement, much disinterest comes from thinking of familiar things in the same familiar way, letting our minds run

in ruts, thinking the same thoughts, instead of mentally stepping aside and seeing ourselves. Our loved ones and our very lives with daily gratitude to God for all that is ours. This world we live in is not a thing of chance; nor do we have a limitless lease on mortal life, nor on our loved ones in this life. And we are none too young to step aside and see ourselves, and ask what really matters most. And in such perspective, the scramble for the shoddy things would seem shoddier; and life and loved ones, and

work, and peace, and virtue, and a quiet conscience, and the beauty of the earth, and the sound and

solid things would all take on new meaning. And somehow we would come closer to acquiring the courage to live as we should live and to be what we should be – if we would step aside and see

ourselves and our surroundings with a new appraisal and purpose.

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