Patience. Listening. Thoughtfulness. Making each breath my body takes center and calm my ever restless soul. In the same book I mentioned in the previous post, Our Dance With God by Karyn Kedar, I read about lingering. Taking that extra time to linger over coffee or tea, to sit alone with your thoughts and keep them as such, until that time they are ready to be spoken. My thoughts are mine until I share them, and how much more developed will these become as I sit with them an extra moment?
I can more fully develop these thoughts and, with patience, grace and love, have these thoughts verbalized and become a reality beyond the wildest churning's of my imagination. To allow my mind to become pregnant with thoughts and to allow them to grow until the time I joyfully labor them into the world is part of my journey. To make each breath I take connect to each thought I have and then share with the world, that is how I can live my life in peace.
Even in unpleasant circumstances, to pause, and reflect on the situation and know that God is there, no matter which path I take. I believe that Galileo really gets it when he says, "Whatever the course of our lives, we should receive them as the highest gift from the hand of God." Times can be tough, but I can be tougher knowing that each time given is a gift from God.
The prayer for my journey today, I pray to seek out opportunities for silence with my thoughts. I pray that I use that silence to nourish my pregnant thoughts, my conscious breath to labor these thoughts, and love to deliver my thoughts to the world. I pray for patience as I await the reaction of thoughts in others. And above all, I pray that I love each person who hears my words, whether they agree or disagree, is not the point, the point is being peaceful, graceful, and loving to everyone.
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