noisy mind is useless

It's Wednesday. I sat at my favorite spot in my family room with a cup of coffee trying to rest and be at peace and meditate. The longer I sat the noisier I become. Have you ever had those times when you simply can not quiet your own mind? The whole morning is a waste - useless, looking from the the day off perspective. I gave up. I picked up the phone and called my sisters on the other site of the globe. A Much better use of time. We giggled, we laughed and we talked. Little ones got on the phone too. Then I called my brother and his wife over there as well. He told me that little man Samuel is now walking holding on to furniture. He is 9 months old and I wonder if he still remember my voice. I wonder that because he had not heard my voice for 3 weeks since he and his mother went to visit his other grand parents far away. I will have to call again when he is awake. I can see him in my mind's eyes. My brother and I talked about starting a chicken farm in Hmawbi " our favorite little neighborhood/town where all of us were born". It's barely a part of the big city where they live right in the middle of now. Koko is going to grow 1000 chicks. I can just picture them yellow and fuzzy and cute. I can just see him having such a great time raising those little chicks. He always loved chicken even when he was a little boy. He and LT were the ones who loved baby chicks and growing them. Chicken were their pets when mine was a black pot-belly pig and a pair of birds and a cat. Dogs were our common pets and oh, I also had a goat at some point. Our house was like a little zoo. At the same time, our house was also just about spotless at all times. My mother was a neat lady. How did she do that(even with help) with the 6 of us children and all our pets. Koko and I talked and talked and talked. It was marvelous. We talked about how beautiful and neat our mother was and we laughed because we are nothing like her. We are fat and messy but she loved us any way. It became passed midnight for them. So, we quit talking for this time. I prayed saying Thank you Lord, for your gift of telephone. I also did emails for work. Not a good idea on a day off. Next, I cooked everything I saw in my refrigerator (not much of anything really). It's a way of Cleaning it out and cleaning my head. I did not like the taste of what I cooked for the second time (Monday night was the first time). This had never happened before. My mind was noisy, just noisy except the duration of my conversation with my siblings. My noisy mind is useless. I decided to count my blessings instead. I thank God for each of my siblings, each and every one of them, for their spouses and for their children. What a gift they each are! Life is good when you are willing to count your blessings. I agree with the Psalmist in saying, " What shall I return to the Lord for all his bounty to me? I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord, I will pay my vows to the Lord the in presence of all his people." Ps.116:11-13 I also decided to listen to Simon and Garfunkel's CD. At the moment they are singing "the Sounds of Silence". How odd!I thought. Have you ever read the scriptures and listen to music made by guys like these two all at the same time?. God uses any thing he likes even music like this to calm me down. The phone rang. It's Will at my sister LT's house in Louisville. They sound happy. Yes Will too is a blessing from God. He will be home with me tomorrow. My mind is a lot quieter now. Perhaps I will have a peaceful and quieter evening and be refreshed for the rest of the week. May all who have noisy mind find quietness and peace in the Lord.