Awakening and Opening

Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to harvest its treasure.
--Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B

I have been considering lately the purpose of my life. After some thought, I realize that I do not need one.

This is not saying my life is aimless. I have daily and intermediate goals and intentions, as well as a calendar book.

What I do mean is that it is okay for me just to be, to exist in this moment. It is enough to watch the sparrow in the tree outside my window and note the sun's passage across the sky. The sun, the sparrow, the tree and myself. We all hold chi, and none of us needs justification.


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At Seekers group today we learned that Red Hat Society has been approved by Courage Center. We will have a planning meeting this Thursday. Hopefully we can tease out a bit of a budget for our activities. We hope to have our first meeting in April.