SHACK 99 CITADEL

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The citadel is defined as a fortress and in a commanding position.  Life at times can seem like a battle.  Battered and exhausted, alone and bedraggled, cold and hungry without a home to go to. This feeling is one of despondency and no hope.  Pleading with strangers and authorities some who are sympathetic and others because their hands are tied by commitments move shyly and guiltily away, often coming back to explain they wanted to help but could not.

Then perchance a stranger or a warm place, a cup of tea offered some comfort and relief and gave time for regrouping and rebuilding.

When at the lowest point and surrendering to the situation, often there was nothing else to do, because worrying and imagining every worst scenario and outcome did not help at all and just made the deplorable situation worst. 

Over the years learning to surrender to the seeming inevitable when it arrived seemed to create a space, one's own thoughts of doom and gloom suspended.  This seemed to make a space in the mind, a kind of void or vacuum and without prayer or trust by just waiting patiently for the chaos and storm to subside seemed to invite sychronicity and spontaneous action. The empty patient and quiet mind seemed to suggest a space for something greater to fill and indeed fill a need.

Could this space be a sort of citadel? A fortress against life's somewhat chaotic and turbulent events. The strange thing is this it is a fortress without walls and defenses and is entirely passive.

What manner of citadel is this?  One might say it is the citadel of no citadel without form or boundaries-----the only boundary is what the mind gives it.

SHACK