Are you carrying a lot on your shoulders?
Assume a quiet state of mind.
Visualize.
Think of a pack on your back.
What is in the pack?
What is making it too heavy to carry?
See yourself
removing the weight from the pack.
How does it feel now?
Do you need to remove more weights from your pack
so that you can carry it?
How do you feel now?
Sometimes we don’t know
how much we are carrying
until we lighten the load.
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Ritual
Tradition
Out of the darkness of winter
Primal celebration
Holy Week
Passover
Easter
Some continue to come together
Honor
those who have gone before.
Some are too busy
or don’t believe rituals and traditions
are important anymore,
at least to them.
Have we lost a gift of community
leaving rituals and traditions
in the past?
Can we find a way to be grateful for the gifts
of life, light, new growth?
Seeing beauty
All around
Can bring dissonance
into harmony.
Seeing beauty, being grateful
for a bird’s song,
green shoots poking through layers,
for the smile of another.
Love is the ritual we can
all share.
Sometimes it is hard
to stop
wanting to skip ahead,
and accept the need to stay
in place now.
Patience is being accepting of the moment,
and the next,
and the next.
And so on.
To listen to the podcast episode and learn more: http://runningonom.com/2014/09/29/roo-83-missy-carter-on-writing-a-spiritual-autobiography/
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