Under your skin a vast network of miracles is taking place. Without your giving it a thought, red blood cells deliver oxygen while white blood cells stand guard against invaders. Your gut transforms food into nutrition, your liver filters toxins, and at, the tiniest level, inside your cells mitochondria are hard at work powering the whole dazzling array. You’re amazing!
What about your body amazes and delights you?
It would be foolish to go out into the wilderness without giving full attention to what you need to bring with you to stay safe and have a good time. We might be heading into the wilderness even if we never travel far from home.
What preparations can you make to stay safe and have a good time when the world gets challenging?
Imagine if you could hear this picture. What sort of a low ringing sound would you get from pouring water over the bell of a large metal bowl? Can you hear it?
What sounds are so vivid to you that you can conjure them out of silence?
“When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.”
—Henri Nouwen
What festive or still moment has felt to you like prayer?
Reality as we generally conceive of it is a world of land and air and gravity. But more of our planet is ocean than land, and many of our world’s beings only know floating in a world of water. It’s easy to assume that the world we know is the only “real” world, but our vision could be limited.
When have you been surprised to find the world was different than the way you had assumed it to be?
