Default Setting

“Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better.”― Caroline Myss

“It is as if joy were the default setting of human emotion, not the furtive, fugitive glimpses it becomes in lives compromised by necessity, familiarity, “maturity,” suffering.”― Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

When you push too many buttons on the car settings or your computer gets jammed up with malware, cookies, temporary files, wiping it clean is often the only option to fix it. Reimaging or resetting to factory settings. Going back to the default, before clutter, noise, junk slowed it down.

Wipe the slate clean each day. Shake off the dust of yesterday and carry forward what matters. Return to default settings of joy, optimism, awe and wonder. That’s where we started then wandered off course. Open and invite ease, expansion, growth, acceptance, exploration, discovery and continuous unfolding rather than perfection, completion, autopilot.

Clear your cache, hit the reset button, start fresh. Each day, imperfectly, with intention followed by action, stitching the fabric of life and self together with grace, enthusiasm, delight and love.

“We all come into the world unfinished, still stitching ourselves together.”― Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful