"Obey Allah and His Messenger; and fall into no disputes, lest you lose heart and your power depart; and be patient and persevering: for Allah is with those who patiently persevere."
(Surat al-Anfal, 8:46)
I got it, I got it. Fighting can be tiring. Whether you're physically fighting, like in a war or battle, or just a simple spat with another person.
Or my seeming favorite, the war in my mind, whether it's the war of words that my thoughts play out, or the war of whether to go left or right.
Because technically, if someone else is standing across the street facing you, their right is your left. Do you see the simile?
Wow, A'uzu billahi minashaitanir rajim. I seek refuge in Allah from Satan the rejected.
It's been a full month since my last post. And each day I say, I'll start back today InshAllah.
I'm usually the one warning against the "put off until later approach". But as a "sure-fire" human at times, I often fall into the "circumstance trap".
Now at times the "circumstance trap" can mean different things. And it most certainly means different things to different people.
But most regularly with me, it seems to mean that I'm always sitting around waiting for complete comfort and satisfaction. Otherwise spelled out as: the perfect place, matched with the perfect time, laced with the ideal energy, and let's not forget, out of this world motivation.
Someone once told me that if you wait for perfection in any circumstance, you'll be waiting forever. Not to discourage, but I know like everyone else that there is no such thing as perfect in a human sense.
But ofcourse my logical mind is always thinking, well yeah, but that means that there's something that's at least, "the next best thing."
And definitely, some situations are better than others.
So I'm always, (fill in the blank- waiting, hoping, praying, counting on) that circumstance that comes right before perfect, maybe a step or two.
But that too, can sometimes mean wasted time and opportunity, and so, today I write, from a new office, in a new department at Newline.
With a computer visible for all the world to see, and if they have a problem with it, then I guess we'll have to cross that bridge when we get there, but for today at least, InshAllah, I'm not going to let the thought of the "what if" lead me to another day of waiting for..how did I say it? Oh yeah,
" the perfect place, matched with the perfect time, laced with the ideal energy and let's not forget motivation."
When starting out today's post, after the ayat that popped into my head, I thought back on
a quote from a Nikki's Giovanni poem, which reads:
(Surat al-Anfal, 8:46)
I got it, I got it. Fighting can be tiring. Whether you're physically fighting, like in a war or battle, or just a simple spat with another person.
Or my seeming favorite, the war in my mind, whether it's the war of words that my thoughts play out, or the war of whether to go left or right.
Because technically, if someone else is standing across the street facing you, their right is your left. Do you see the simile?
Wow, A'uzu billahi minashaitanir rajim. I seek refuge in Allah from Satan the rejected.
It's been a full month since my last post. And each day I say, I'll start back today InshAllah.
I'm usually the one warning against the "put off until later approach". But as a "sure-fire" human at times, I often fall into the "circumstance trap".
Now at times the "circumstance trap" can mean different things. And it most certainly means different things to different people.
But most regularly with me, it seems to mean that I'm always sitting around waiting for complete comfort and satisfaction. Otherwise spelled out as: the perfect place, matched with the perfect time, laced with the ideal energy, and let's not forget, out of this world motivation.
Someone once told me that if you wait for perfection in any circumstance, you'll be waiting forever. Not to discourage, but I know like everyone else that there is no such thing as perfect in a human sense.
But ofcourse my logical mind is always thinking, well yeah, but that means that there's something that's at least, "the next best thing."
And definitely, some situations are better than others.
So I'm always, (fill in the blank- waiting, hoping, praying, counting on) that circumstance that comes right before perfect, maybe a step or two.
But that too, can sometimes mean wasted time and opportunity, and so, today I write, from a new office, in a new department at Newline.
With a computer visible for all the world to see, and if they have a problem with it, then I guess we'll have to cross that bridge when we get there, but for today at least, InshAllah, I'm not going to let the thought of the "what if" lead me to another day of waiting for..how did I say it? Oh yeah,
" the perfect place, matched with the perfect time, laced with the ideal energy and let's not forget motivation."
When starting out today's post, after the ayat that popped into my head, I thought back on
a quote from a Nikki's Giovanni poem, which reads:
i haven't written a poem in so long i may have forgotten how unless writing a poem is like riding a bike or swimming upstream
it may be a habit that once acquired is never lost
I think my post today is a little different, or maybe I always talk like this. Either way, I appreciate you all listening, and allowing me to share the moment with you. And InshAllah, welcoming me back into your lives.
Today, I pray that Allah will continue to bring us closer to our own individual understanding of our unique, and once again "individual" purposes for being in this world, at this time, on this day. And that He will bless us to fulfill those purposes to a "tee". Ameen.
Your Sister
