Author: clfuu

By clearing our minds of distracting thoughts and focusing intently on the present moment, we can sometimes make room for possibilities to enter us.

How can you practice mindfulness and focus on the present moment?

Troy, a CLF member incarcerated in Ohio writes, “The journey will always have difficulties. Had I focused my outlook on a limiting philosophy, gotten lured in, I could easily have been hooked and sunk by its impossible weight.”

What difficulties do you need to overcome in order to make new things possible?

We pause in thanks today for all of the life that has made it possible for us to live. For the earth and the sun and the plants and the streams, for the ancestors in all of their imperfection.

What are you grateful for today?

Sometimes, the stories we tell are just pieces of the truth. Sometimes, those stories get in the way of imagining something different, something better. Sometimes, we need to write new stories. Sometimes, we need to listen to the stories that others have been telling all along.

How do you change the stories you tell to make new things possible?

We sometimes label things “impossible” when in reality they are just very difficult. Bumblebees flying, computers, the four-minute mile, space exploration–the list of the possible impossible is endless.

Have you ever witnessed something labeled “impossible” become reality?