Piglet noticed that even
though he had a very small heart,
it could hold a rather
large amount of gratitude.
A.A. Milne
Even though
Month: June 2023
Honest prayers
There is Thomas Merton’s famous prayer, the beginning of which reads, ‘My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me.’ You can look up the rest.
There is a beautiful prayer a friend’s Jewish mother wrote and taught me, which I swear by: Help for the sick and hungry, home for the homeless folk, peace in the world forever. This is my prayer, O lord. Amen.
I wrote one that will do in a pinch:
Hi, God. I am just a mess.
It is all hopeless. What else is new?
I would be sick of me, if I were You,
but miraculously You are not.
I know I have no control over other people’s
lives, and I hate this. Yet I believe that if I
accept this and surrender, You will meet me
wherever I am. Wow. Can this be true? If so, how is this
afternoon – say, two-ish?
Thank You in advance for Your company and blessings.
You have never once let me down.
Amen.
Anne Lamott, Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
Cycles
Instead of seeing time as a straight line,
if we see life as a series of cycles of growth, maturation, and death followed by rebirth,
we can better understand why endings are necessary for new beginnings.
Jeremy Hunter, mindfulness teacher, founder Executive Mind Leadership Institute
Go with the river
Every day we’re given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim hard against it.
If we go with the river, the energy of a thousand mountain streams will be with us . . . if we resist the river, we will feel rankled and tired as we tread water, stuck in the same place.
Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open
The human condition
No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.
Chuck Palahniuk,1962 – American writer, Invisible Monsters
Sunday Quote: Timelessness
At the end of this Mid-Summer week with the “longest” day
If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness,
then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present
Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 6.431
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