Albatrosses ride the wind for vast distances, staying aloft for most of the year. They manage this amazing feat not by the strength of their giant wings, but rather by their ability to find and remain in air currents that will carry them where they wish to go. They relax into the place where they need to be, and allow themselves to be carried.
When have you experienced that sense of being able to relax into the current of your life?
In the Passover Seder, participants tell the story of moving from slavery to freedom as if the centuries-old story happened to them personally: “This is what God did for me when God brought me out from Egypt.” Our freedom rests in the stories of those who came before us, and their lives are not lost as we continue to live out their stories.
Whose story of freedom continues in your life?
Do you ever feel as if you are curled in on yourself, protecting what is most fragile inside you by wrapping it tight? What would it feel like to release that tension, to allow your body to stretch out in trust that there is room for you—all of you—in this world?
How to you make room for what is inside you to stretch and grow?
No one knows why whales throw themselves out of the water, in an act called “breaching.” Perhaps they do it to loosen barnacles from their skin, or to signal to comrades in the vicinity. Maybe they do it because it gives them a glimpse into a world outside their watery home, or simply because it’s fun.
What do you like to do just for the heck of it, for a little variety in your life
“A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man’s self-respect and inherent human dignity.” –Aung San Suu Kyi
What small, daily act of courage have you taken recently?
