The Simple Woman’s Daybook for October 25, 2021

I am thankful…our sickness scare over the weekend wasn’t what we were afraid it was, and we didn’t expose our friends to it. God answered prayer!
One of my favorite things…getting new books – a couple more are due tomorrow!
I am creating…a list of books to read next year – and I might start some early. 😉 I’m getting close to being done my 5×10 (5 books/10 categories) version of the Schole Sisters reading challenge, and it’s been good to read so broadly but deeply.

It still remains true that all love directed toward a human being (“it’s good that you exist”) is a reflection of the Creator’s creative love, by whose “approval” all beings, including this beloved person, exist at all. Nevertheless, we do not have to show our love by consciously “reenacting” the primal creatio in our own minds; we show it in the quite ordinary form of active helpfulness, in the friendliness of greetings and expressions of thanks, in a small word or even in a mere good-humored muttering – and, of course, in those infinitely difficult and yet wholly inconspicuous “acts” of which the New Testament speaks: not being envious, not being boastful, not rejoicing at others’ sorrows, bearing no grudges (and so on). On the other hand, we might well be reminded now and again that even the scarcely noted ill humor in our daily life would, were its intention carried out to its ultimate conclusion, amount to a negation of the created world, to the desire that the other person might not exist at all.