When you feel like you’re under water, drowning in the things that need to be done or circumstances beyond your control, imagination may be the only thing that gets you through.
What is a positive outcome that you can imagine for something that you are struggling with?
“If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”
― Norton Juster
What do you close your eyes to be able to envision?
Stained glass windows bring color and light into churches that might otherwise be dim and grey stone edifices.
How do you see out color to lift your spirits?
Lectio divina is a spiritual practice based in reading—spending time enough to go deep with a sacred text. But there are many other spiritual practices based in reading—or speaking or singing—words.
What is a spiritual practice involving words that is meaningful to you?
The creation of a Tibetan Buddhist sand painting, or mandala, is painstaking, sacred work. And the destruction of that mandala is equally sacred work. It beautiful and requires a great deal of effort to create—and isn’t meant to last. Because that is how life is.
What practice helps you handle the transitory nature of all of life?
