High tech tools are far more efficient, and allow us to get more done, but low tech tools often give us a more physical sense of connection to the task at hand.
Kids are generally fascinated by shadows—how the image of your own body can appear so similar to the real you, but also be so distorted by the angle of the sun.
How do you or those around you distort the image of your body?
Mountains are there to be climbed, cliffs to be scaled…or not. Sometimes you look at a situation and say: “Nope. Not gonna go there.” Sometimes discretion really is the better part of valor.
What have you contemplated doing that you are happy to have not done?
Prayer is the most solitary of activities, arising from the quiet center of the heart. Prayer is also the most communal of activities, connecting us to that which binds all beings together.
How does prayer connect you with yourself? How does it connect you with something larger than yourself?