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Dec 18

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Delight in the Ordinary

“…small bits of our day are profoundly meaningful
because they are the site of our worship. The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.”― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“We are standing before the Grand Canyon or the Sistine Chapel and rolling our eyes.”― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

Hum of the ordinary.
Invitation to play.
Nuance of color.
Current of rivers.
Flow of wind.
Dance of trees.
Rhythm of life.
Hidden in plain sight.
Asking our partaking, savoring, pausing.
Small moment, big life.

“The new life into which we are baptized is lived out in days, hours, and minutes. God is forming us into a new people. And the place of that formation is in the small moments of today.”― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

Oct 28

Simple Moments

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

“Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.” – Wayne Dyer

Simple moments.
Slivers of joy.
Found hidden on the ground you stand.
Overflowing with delight.
These are what add up, accumulate, multiply.
Do not miss the simple moments, the ingredients of a good life well lived.
Small and immense all at once.
Daily gratitude revealing the abundant present.

“Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.” – Wayne Dye

Sep 30

Delicious Delighting

“The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.” – Julia Margaret Cameron

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” – Isaac Asimov

To delight in this day.
To not “remember when” or “someday when” to diminish the present.
In the mystery, unknowing, ordinary.
Awake, open and inviting.
New day, fresh hope, on the lookout for joy with a heap of fun.
To delight in this very day.

“If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.” – Greg Boyle

Sep 25

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A Fund of Delight

“Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.” – Daniel Boone

“Simple being is a deep sigh of relief that comes from letting go of pretense. It is also the sigh that comes from releasing a heavy burden that results from creating and managing the false selves that are substitute centers for the truth of our being. It is the sigh of release as we exchange complexity for simplicity. It is the sigh of release as we let go of preoccupations, inordinate attachments, and disordered passions. Things in the depths of our beings get aligned when we let go of these things.”― David G. Benner, Presence and Encounter

Break away from doing.
Simple being.
Deep sigh.
Travel light.
Release and put down.
Found in the seeking.
In the finding.
Joy chasing.
Wonder overflowing.
Rhythms of grace.
A fund of delight.

“Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.”― John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” – Isaac Asimov

Sep 3

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Bliss of the Moment

“That’s what it means to really feel alive – to be so immersed in the passionate bliss of the moment that you don’t think about yesterday or tomorrow. You just enjoy what you’re doing and love every piece of it.”― Lori Deschene

“Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you’re about to react harshly and you’ll avoid doing and saying things you’ll later regret.”― Lori Deschene

Intention to action.
Attention to awareness.
Reaction to response.
Awe to gratitude.
The power of the pause, of noticing.
Immersed in today alone.
Bliss woven into simple moments.
Flow and ease.
Get out of your own way.

“The moment we decide things don’t have to be a certain way, we create the possibility that they could be better than we know to imagine them.”― Lori Deschene

Aug 9

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Wearing the Woods

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

A few minutes off leash in the woods.
Up and down and all around.
Romping up the side of the hill, over branches, through bushes.
Big smile inside and out.
A fresh coat of the woods to brush out.
Worth it.
Put on your big boots, go off leash, do some crazy good things.
Get off trail today.

“She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.”― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Jun 18

To Take and Give Delight

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Khalil Gibran

“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.” – William Blake

Take delight in this day.
Feel the earth beneath you.
Lighten up.
Have fun.
Life is not a job.
It’s a call, a vocation, a gift.
Participate fully in the present.
Someday is today.
In taking delight, we give it away too.
May joy take you be the hand to the playground of wonder.
Holy ground.

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.” – Anne Lamott

May 18

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Prayer of Attention

“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”― Karl Barth

“I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?”
― Mary Oliver, House of Light

In spiral.
In staleness.
In routine.
Break the pattern.
Stillness.
Rest.
Wander.
Wonder.
Walk lightly.
Laugh, delight, play.
Reset.
Pay attention.
Be made new each day.

“there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.”― Mark Nepo, Finding Inner Courage

Mar 12

Stay Awake

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”― Rumi

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep!”
– Rumi

Crack the window.
Then some more.
Fresh air.
Soft breeze.
Wind in your hair.
Awake and in wonder.
Invite and welcome in.
The light too.
Engage in life.
Which is this day.
Stay awake. Stay awake.
Blessings all around.

“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Feb 28

The Steps Along the Way

“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

“We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.”― Mark Nepo

The alluring promise of someday.
The comfort of remembering when.
The hot pursuit of the finish line.
The satisfaction in the completion of our “to do” list.
In the midst of our striving, figuring, pursuing, the present sits quietly awaiting to be seen and entered into.
The path beneath our feet.
Sacred ground.
Root in today.
Witness and partake.
Simple joys in the steps along the way.

“Rest is not for weaklings. Hollowing out space for rest is work. Finding time for rest is the hands and feet of the promises we long to claim. It means saying no. It means having limits with ourselves. It means having limits with others. It takes courage to rest in the midst of an outcome-driven society. It takes strength to walk away from good in the pursuit of better.”― Saundra Dalton-Smith, Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity

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