Song of Long Ago

From Les Miserables:
"There is a way of avoiding a man, that resembles a search."
I suspect there are a number of things in my life which I attempt to avoid: Situations, relationships, and mindsets I've learned in rough manner, are not desirable. This brings me to the point of interest. In taking evasive actions in intended avoidance .... those same actions which seem so noble trace a circle directly back to where I began. In the middle of the undesirable.
In telling someone "no" over and over again, we are actually SAYING yes, by not simply acting out our "no". In whining about wanting to eat less, we are whining because we are not being active in our pursuit of the thing we DO want. In these examples and in my experience I believe the key to be the activity. Do my actions rotate around the "no" or the "yes?
I pray the work of my hands and the words of my mouth would not be in avoidance of one thing ... but in constant pursuit of another. That the axis around which my life rotates would be "Yes, Lord."

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