"Here is one way to look at yourself through spiritual eyes: you are a message. When you wonder what existence is all about, when you ask about your purpose in life, or when you feel small in comparison to the troubles of the world: remember that you are a message sent by the Spirit into creation. What you say, what you do, how you think and feel: your whole life is a long and sustained message for others to encounter, experience and receive. You are a living message: sent to touch more lives than you can imagine.”
—Steven Charleston, Episcopal Bishop and Native American elder of the Choctaw nation.
I need to die each day in order to live it fully No more dragging my heavy heart stone out of bed each morning Trudging through a sticky quagmire of bitter resentment Hauling and heaving my great boul
Finally on my way to say yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the untended wounds the red and purple scars those hieroglyphs of pain carved into my skin and bones, those coded
Slow down, friend. Breathe. In, out. In, out. Sink into the vastness of presence Life is only a moment. Answers do not arrive on-demand. We are on an ancient schedule here. The teaching is simple: Slo
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