One reader writes: “When my mind gets to chattering, I sit down and write out everything that I am worrying about. This helps to quiet my mind. About a month or so later, I go back and read it. I end up saying to myself, ‘Now what was I so worried about? None of this was worth worrying about.’ It makes me feel silly because everything worked out.”

Thank you. Good suggestion. Except you are not silly.

Keeping a journal is definitely part of living the spiritual life. I was in a Barnes & Noble recently, and I noticed that they stock lovely blank-page journals. The covers of these books seemed especially attractive to me. For my own dreams and musings, I use blank accounting ‘Record’ books from the office supply store—the ones with straight lines and numbered pages.