I could have chose nature
The frustration for me today was not paying my taxes but my efforts to transfer data from my old computer to a new one. The new computer had a program to make the process easy. All was going well for a while but when I went to put some of the files from the old computer on the new one it did not work. This is a transfer that I did not plan out today and when it did not work I was tempted to keep on trying it. After being frustrated by my failure I realized that I had planned to do something much better today, work outside on the gardens.
So I stopped being frustrated by the failure of the computer transfer and went outside to work for about 3 hours. I had some struggles working outside, like putting together the two vertical growers, but nothing to match the frustration I felt inside. I did some raking, digging, planting, preparing, working on rain barrels and worm moving. At the end of the work time on the garden I still had a lot of work to do but felt good.
Earlier in the day I received an email from a friend asking for advice on discerning a decision she had to make. Falling back on my training in Ignatian Spirituality I said that she consider the choices and how she would feel with each one. This is something Ignatius of Loyola did after being injured in battle as a soldier. For him it led to his laying down his weapons and becoming a companion of Jesus.
Today the frustration I felt after working on the computer and the peace I felt after working in the garden was a lesson in my own discernment of choices. Choosing nature over technology, garden over computer is the choice to make.
(Posting this entry was a horror. Revenge of the Computer?)
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