My husband wants to take me to Carmel-by-the-Sea on a future
vacation. It sounds wonderful, with panoramic ocean views, quaint shops, fabulous
restaurants, and elegant inns. Let’s say I liked the idea. It sounds like a
place that would be hard to leave – until the money ran out.
The travel brochures describes it as a place of perfection, a
place where everyone is polite and gracious, a place where the ugliness of the rest of
the world doesn’t exist. That might be the true for
tourists, but the residents deal with all the same problems the rest of us do.
They just get to do it in a beautiful place.
We can chose to make our lives more beautiful, regardless of
whether we live in a resort town or not, and the means to do this is free: the Serenity
Prayer.
I have this recorded on a CD by Dr. Emmett Miller (Serenity Prayer) with a
thirty-minute drive time meditation. What could be a better time to practice
serenity than during my morning commute?
