While we
cannot force an encounter with mystery, we can be open to receiving one. We can
learn to pay attention, especially in the midst of those daily tasks we do so
often that they become rote and mindless. Kathleen Norris, in her book The Quotidian Mysteries suggests: “It is
in the routine and the everyday that we find the possibilities for the greatest
transformation… Times we think we are only “getting through” have the power to
change us… What we dread as mindless activity can free us, mind and heart, for
the workings of the Holy Spirit.”
It is in that
quotidian that mystery most unfolds… We live the bulk of our lives in the
daily, doing the same tasks again and again—preparing food, showering,
dressing, checking voicemail or email, doing dishes or laundry, commuting to
work- and it can come to feel like a grind, pointless and redundant. But it is
precisely because these tasks are daily that they have such transformative
potential. Such work has an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of
faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day
to day. And it is only in the present moment that the veil can part. It is in
the daily, ordinary moments of our lives where we have the most opportunity to
notice mystery, to encounter it and to be encountered by it.
-Kimberly
Conway Ireton The Circle of Seasons
Praying that this would be so in my life and that I will have a heart attentive to God's voice through our days...
Kids' Valentine Run this morning....
the Tunnel of Love :)
Go Anna! (and Liam behind her...)
Taylor Cravy's birthday party today -
a really fun idea that they had a lady come who brought bunnies for all the girls to play with for an hour! Needless to say, Anna was in heaven...
Anna and Taylor
Anna and the bunny (they said she was like the bunny whisperer)
Meanwhile, Taylor Huff was at the Pinewood Derby for his pack this afternoon
no trophy this year... but he did come in 2nd in his last heat. :)
a great team!
walking buddies today
as Heather is in town visiting another friend who just had a baby...
the girls hanging out tonight
and the boys... :)
Cravys, Huffs, McGorans, Atkins and Zubecks-- a sweet reunion tonight!
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