Lynn Caines and lifelines
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Lynn Caines, in her autobiographical Lifelines, tells how in the midst of her struggle to overcome depression and loneliness she developed a series of disciplines that she called "lifelines." She describes the turning point when she stopped feeling sorry for herself.
"The very next Saturday I bought myself a bicycle and headed straight for Central Park and its miles of bicycle paths. I pumped as hard as I could. Never mind that my heart was beating furiously and I was gasping for breath. I felt like a child again, a child with a new bicycle."
Later, she wrote, "I began to exercise my mind. I experimented with several forms of meditation and found a couple I felt comfortable with… I went to church more often, and I read a lot about religion. Gradually, I rearranged my life along more spiritual lines. I wanted to make it simpler, less cluttered."
"Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one" (1 Corinthians 9:25).
"The very next Saturday I bought myself a bicycle and headed straight for Central Park and its miles of bicycle paths. I pumped as hard as I could. Never mind that my heart was beating furiously and I was gasping for breath. I felt like a child again, a child with a new bicycle."
Later, she wrote, "I began to exercise my mind. I experimented with several forms of meditation and found a couple I felt comfortable with… I went to church more often, and I read a lot about religion. Gradually, I rearranged my life along more spiritual lines. I wanted to make it simpler, less cluttered."
"Athletes exercise self-control in all things; they do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable one" (1 Corinthians 9:25).
