Author: clfuu

Learning to walk is making a bold move into independence. What a fine thing it is to have loving hands to hold us up while we learn to strike out on our own.

Who has held you up while you learned to do something new for yourself?

Rock climbing works by clinging as tightly as possible to a handhold—and then releasing that grip in order to hold on somewhere else. Over and over.

What will you let go of today in order to hold to something new?

“Turning the other cheek means showing our enemies that they can only be our enemies while supposing that we are anxiously clinging to our private property, whatever it is: our knowledge, our good name, our land, our money, or the many objects we have collected around us. But who will be our robber when everything he wants to steal from us becomes our gift to him?”
― Henri Nouwen

What have you let go of in order to stay in good relation with someone?

All too often life can feel like juggling flaming clubs: work, family, responsibilities to the community or the larger world fly past our noses, barely under control. It can be done. It’s also exhausting.

What enables you to set down the flaming clubs for a moment and take a breath?

It seems only a matter of moments between when a strawberry is not quite ripe and when it is past its prime.

What are you waiting for? How will you know when the time is ripe?