Many desperately seek it; a few have more than others; while some feel that they have little or none. What’s in your power and how do you use it?
Prelude Sung by Dimitri Sobol “One Power” Words and Music by Daniel Mahmod
An Ever Widening Circle
A classic Zen exercise is the ensō, the circle hand-drawn in a single fluid brushstroke. It is close to perfect, but never there. Its incompleteness serves as an invitation to everything beyond it, and as such makes a wonderful model for community life. How does “not being quite complete “serve us as faith communities”?
Here we are at the end of January, and by now nearly 50% of people who made New Year’s resolutions to get fit/work out, save money, eat healthy, start a spiritual practice, lose weight, keep a journal, and many other “self-improvement” declarations, have gone back to the habits that led to the resolutions in the first place.
What if we didn’t start with the idea of I MUST…, but instead began with curiosity and gentleness?
I have good news and bad news. Which do you want first? We’ve likely all been faced with that question at one time or another. Our response usually has to do with our fatigue level, how strong we feel at the time, the recent events in our lives. Some days we want to get the bad out of the way quickly. Other days we need something good to sustain us first. Actually, given the choice, most of us would probably like to avoid the bad news altogether.
