I was raised in a home that was not only open to God’s will leading our lives, and so we went through some hard times that helped us grow, but also a home that taught me that Love is not about you. That life is not about you. That you are not the center of the universe…the center of anything, really. Instead, I was taught more along the lines of Cicero: “You were not born for yourself alone.”
Before I became a mother, I was good at almost everything. I was good at school as a student and then as a teacher, I was good at leading retreats, I was good at talking to people. I was good at athletics, at making a house a home, at arguing and then making up from arguments. I took being good at things for granted: I was accomplished, I was capable, and I was used to that.
While the holidays begin to swirl around me and I feel things starting to rev up, I am surprised that, this week, I feel nudged to share about slowing down.
The need for the slow down, and the difficulty of effecting it, is not a new topic for me. There have been moments throughout my life when it became painfully obvious that I needed to slow down, and, sometimes, some truly awful things had to happen for me to pay attention to slowing my pace.
Episode 2: Guided Reflection 1: Conversation with God
