Author: clfuu

“I am discovering that the most powerful learning actually occurs when we go off the agenda. When we go off the agenda, it’s usually because something has happened in the room, and we need to attend to something that shifted. So, it could be that someone says something that’s like a microaggression; it could be that the learning in the room requires us to pivot—the questions that are coming up are not following the original plan—but ultimately what’s exciting about that is that we are responding to the embodied learned experience in that moment. We are responding to the people in the room, and to the actual moment.” -Julica Hermann de la Fuente

What do you need to shift today in order to learn better? What different pathways do you need to explore?

Children are often judged on whether they color things the “right” color. This never fails to make me mad. Why not a blue horse, or a green sun? Why not brilliant black flowers and flowing aqua hair? All colors are marvelous in their own right.

Draw something today. Make it a fabulous color.

Sixteenth century Jewish mystic Isaac Luria told a story of creation in which God, in order to make room to create the world, stored divine light in earthen vessels. Some of these jars broke, and the light that they stored scattered with the broken pieces of clay. In Luria’s account of creation, the goal of humankind was to gather the divinity scattered with these shards, and to separate this sacred light from the sharp, jagged pieces of brokenness. Luria named this goal tikkun olam, the repair of the world. Over the years, this calling has evolved into an understanding that the sacredness of our world is broken—torn apart by violence, oppression, injustice, and hatred—and that it is up to humanity to fix that brokenness in order to live up to our covenant with God.

Notice glimpses of wholeness around you today. Where is more wholeness possible in your life?

 

“‘Change’ is a word on wheels. It’s not a destination, but a journey. If I am to ‘be change,’ I must commit to humility and refuse to settle for my own comforting achievements.

“That which is in us and all around us and which constantly draws us to our holiest selves, remove from me any spirit of complacency that would aim to prevent me from seeing the truth of myself. Strengthen me as I commit to a lifestyle of development. And, remind me that that lifestyle is simply called love.”  -De Reau Farrar

How can you commit to your own change, growth, and development today?

“We are.  Therefore, we love. We love. Therefore, we are. May we be humble before the wonder of what we dare to create.” -Richard S. Gilbert

What have you dared to create with your love?