Well, yes! 😉 I am growing older! 🙂

Welcome it, accept it, relax into it. Then the door is open. I am not trapped in my pain. All the beauty and goodness, grace, mercy and love can make its way to me in spite of what I am suffering.

Ah! Wise words! Well, everything is not just about me. In a ‘crisis” things might be sorting themselves out for a greater good for others as well as for me. And it could be, I would be the best ‘help’, if help is needed, by striving to see the larger picture, by trying to have a sense of what God wills in the situation.

… for “my learning” and growing, and deepening … my life IS that …

The spoken (or sung) Word of God, most music, bird song, the church bells ringing at La Presentation, the voices (and the messages) of those who love me, rainfall …

Yes! It is to treat all with love and respect, even if some have forgotten we are from the same source …

Love is about the other …

What might I do to help someone smile today?

Ah! I want to read well in French at Mass this morning. I will do my best — but perhaps someone will smile at my imperfect French!

If I am attentive to Patricia at work (a care-giving job), she will smile!

Yesterday I gave a poor woman some bus tickets. She smiled and told me I looked more beautiful all the time!

I will smile at myself in the mirror this morning, and myself will smile back!

Expectations …

My well-being is dependent on pure gift … in gratitude I accept my littleness, my dependence …

What an excellent question … something to ponder …

Less reactivity? Broader scope? More humanity?

My life IS meaningful … it is a matter of awakening to it!

First of all, in terms of real gardens and real weeds, I will say there are many weeds I like … like dandelions. I love their bright yellow blossoms in spring, and they have many medicinal uses, too.

If I imagine as weeds those who give me difficulty in life and seem out to deflect me from my path, then I believe I have become much stronger on account of them …

I wish everyone would have Presence, to be fully alive, and to be true to who they were created to be..

Is there a specific wisdom that teaches that?

Yes! I have my stories, which I offer as reasons, or excuses, to not fully engage. Is not that limiting?

Ah! Every moment, indeed, is a gift! And, being aware of this, I could focus on the gift, rather than the enumerable short-comings of the recipient of the gift, me. How could gratitude not grow as I step out of that prison?!

Be here now.

Daily Question, July 5

When have I become more by letting go?

Well, every time I let go, I become more. Rather than “a grasping”, I am. Ah! 🙂