Category: Meditations

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
—Elie Wiesel

Whose smile feels particularly like grace to you?

Face it. We can’t always be graceful. Sometimes, trying something new requires going through an awkward phase when the parts just don’t seem to fit together. Sometimes, it turns out, the joy isn’t really so much in grace as in the willingness to have fun doing something new badly.

What do you enjoy doing awkwardly?

Sometimes healing comes in the form of technologies to fix what is broken—surgeries, medications, therapies of all sorts. But sometimes healing comes simply from a loving presence who will hold you in the brokenness.

How do you offer a healing hand?

Riding a swing gives you the primal rush of flying as the swing heads up…up…up. Of course, you know that any moment you will reach the top of the arc and head down again. But you also know that it is the momentum of the downward swing that pushes you up once more, if only you lean your weight into it.

Where on the pendulum of up and down does your life feel at the moment?

Perhaps, if you are very quiet, you will find little bits of magic moving through the most ordinary places.

Where do you find extraordinary things in the ordinary?