I’m trying something new.
I did this yesterday and it went really wonderfully, so I’m going to keep it up.
I’m making an intention to hold for my day. Kind of like an extended, occasional meditation.
Yesterday’s intention was to be accepting of the moment I was in. Which was a really helpful intention to hold in my mind while I was at work, and often, would prefer to be elsewhere.
It reminded me a bit of the practice of choosing a word for the year… where it just serves as a gentle reminder whenever I could feel myself start to get disgruntled. It helped to bring me back, at least into a frame of mind that wasn’t struggling against my unavoidable reality.
Today, my intention is to go slow.
There was one visit, several years ago, that I made down to Orange County. I was at my friend Nathan’s house and had just said a brief hello to his parents as we were heading out the door, when his dad stopped me. Without having had any kind of update on things going on in my life at the time… he told me that he felt like I needed to hear something before I left. Slow down. he said to me. He said a few more things, I’m sure. But to this day, I can still hear the soft, gentle tone of his voice, and feel his hand on my shoulder. Slow down.
I told Nathan about it later and he reminded me that his dad had once been a pastor. And also said that he definitely had a some prophetic sensitivities. And I’ll never forget that. Because it was, exactly the message I needed to hear back then.
And while life is dramatically slower paced than it once was… Internally, I often still feel like I’m running the hamster wheel. So today, it’s my message to myself. To slow down, take things as they come, and allow myself some mental space when I’m not sure what should come next.
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