Discerning the Everyday

Discerning the Everyday October 8, 2015

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We blanket our lives with routines and habits, wrapping them in expectations and assumptions. They protect us from what we fear, what intimidates us, what causes our anxieties.

When we are afraid we will fail, afraid we might succeed, we anesthetize ourselves. When we are afraid we will always be alone, or we may never have a moment’s peace, we close our eyes. We turn over, pull our blankets back over our heads, and go back to sleep.

It is important to get the rest we need, but hiding is not resting. The artificial slumber of numbing ourselves to sleep is not the rest we need.

It is time for us to awaken.

This is the day we wake up to the potential we have each day. This is the morning we throw off the wrappings that we allow to keep us in bed. This is the moment our feet hit the floor.

We come awake to the spark of possibility in this day, this hour, this second. We recognize the power filling us and the people around us today. We open our eyes to the joy, the strength, the beauty packed into each moment. We take a deep breath, and we are ready to begin.

It can be easy for us to miss what is available to us each day, but we will not be distracted today. We will begin to see life drawing us into it. This day, this moment, we will listen to something greater and deeper than own attention span.

Life is pulling us out of our routines and slumber. Today, and every day from now on, we are awake to the glory of life around us.

How are you waking up to life today?

Where is life drawing you into itself today?

[Image by kozumel]


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