My new job has me traveling to multiple small towns in a southerly swing along the Gulf Coast. My newest friend is my daughters Garmin, which she let me borrow (thank heavens!). It has introduced me to my newest word...recalculating.
If I make a mistake driving or veer off to get gas, the computer generated female voice instantly says "recalculating" and then tells me the new direction in which to go. Sometimes she tells me to make a U-turn and return to the highlighted route, others she tells me to proceed x number of miles ahead to proceed but she is always there to guide me along.
Wouldn't it be great if the voice in our head was so clear? Make a U-turn, don't eat that cupcake, run like hell this man is bad news, slow down and smell the roses...great advice like that? I wonder if we could hear that inner voice saying so loudly, recalculating, if we would even listen? After all, aren't some mistakes what leads us to great discoveries?
Anyone who has a job with driving time also has a lot of thinking time. I am finding this out. You can only listen to Pimsluer French so much and on a country road the radio is often iffy. So you think. You remember. Maybe you worry. You make plans. If you are listening, the voice in your head does come through loud and clear. You learn to "recalculate" in the silence by listening.
So I listen and muse. I work out problems that would have been difficult before because so many people were demanding my time, up close and personal. I also realize that there are many voices (maybe I need meds), the negative voice, the positive voice, the mom voice, the sister voice, the wife voice all telling me what to do. In the quiet of the car, I am learning to filter the voices. I keep some, throw away a lot and drive in silence. Recalculating.
It occurs to me that I knew this all along, I just never applied it to my life. It had been said another way, Peace, be still.
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