WHAT DO YOU DO WITH ALL YOUR THOUGHTS?

Some context for this whole space.

There is an ancient idea in the bible that God somehow collects our tears and puts them in a bottle. David the king wrote about this. About God keeping count of his tossings (wonderings), putting his tears in a bottle, and somehow they are in a book. Ok, at this point I will admit that I do not have a theological explanation to this, what I do have is a thought about how this idea resonates with me.

KEEPING COUNT: Of something suggests attention and care. Things that draw or capture our attention matter because they are signals that helps us discern the difference between what’s important to us and what’s not. To care is to provide all that is necessary for the welfare and protection of something or someone. To keep count then means that we have decided what is important and provide what is necessary to nurture its existence.

TEARS IN A BOTTLE: A bottle is for storage and preservation. When something(one) is in a bottle it looses its nebulousness, suddenly there’s shape and form and clarity. If you bottle something up, you increase and some cases guarantee its lifespan. This makes me want to take time to seriously reflect on the things/people I have stored in my bottles. Because bottles keep life going, one way or another.

BOOK: A playground for imagination and a sacred space that captures and stores our most ethereal thoughts. The pure, fragile, dangerous, dark, beautiful and intimate. If it’s in a book, it is already engraved in the mind of a person or two or a million. It is of incredible power.

A book is a playground for imagination.

“I WILL CAPTURE THEM IN A BOTTLE”