feminine feminist

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

I've been listening to Christmas music in a effort to get in the mood. Planning a carol service has certainly helped, and I've been on the organised side of my usual dither between planned-to-the-hilt and thrown-together-at-the-last-minute.

It is good to be quiet at this time of year. It is good to take stock. In and amongst the usual dissatisfactions of contemporary life I have found space to sit back and acknowledge that there are abundance of good things to be thankful for. If advent is about expectation, I wonder if there is a lesson about reducing our expectations. A wise man once told me about the psychotherapeutic notion of 'the good enough'. He referenced the good enough job, the good enough family, the good enough partner. The Judeo-Christian God was not imagined in a context of perfection, but in the context of goodness. If we lower our expections, or our satisfaction from the ultimate, from the best-ever, and allow it to be what is good... what we need... what we may not want, but which may be the right thing for now: what might that look like?

posted by Feminine Feminist @ 6:29 PM