“Air above me,
Earth below me,
Water around me,
Fire within me,
Forest before me.”

I think our current economic paradigm is largely greed based. Most want to pile up the good stuff as high as possible.

With gratitude, reverence for our beautiful creation and for each other, and common courtesy, our economic situation would become a blessing to all.

I think I might reflect some of what others have given me that has helped me heal.

Acceptance, warmth, appreciation, gentleness, understanding …

For the most part, I feel affirmed by nature … even next to the ocean. I can feel my littleness, but, I think of how amazing the One Who created it all is, and I feel lifted up and affirmed.

Depends on the intention! If the intention is for good, the words are healing and uplifting!

Who me? Can’t imagine! Such an introvert!

Recycle what I am able to. Take a bus rather than a car. Use less water (I tend to be generous in its use … )

I get all the visible and invisible help I need, I think! Thanks be to God!

What a good question! I love to jam pack full certain areas of my life and neglect other, less interesting, but also important areas of my life.

In other words there is grasping on the one hand and neglect on the other.

Perhaps if I let go of some of my clinging to the good, it would help me open more to the pure gift of that good, find greater balance, and attend better to the mundane things I tend to ignore … but which, in fact are also pure gift …

Ah! I love all your responses … for me it is sitting in Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament … with friends around me …

Well, naturally we are connected. It is the emotional reactivity or the intellectual building of walls that disconnects us. Gratitude helps me to be in touch with the reality of our connectedness.

The inevitable paradoxes can only be embraced by my being still and going deeper within in prayer and in trust in the Lord, especially when those paradoxes require important decisions on my part.

Overthinking things! Anxiety. Being more concerned about myself than about the given moment …

All belong, all love and are loved, everyone has all that they have need of, our waters are clean, our air no longer polluted. All live deeply the richness of life in all its fullness, and death? Where is your sting! You are no more! In short, heaven on earth!

The miracle of my life. Stars shining at night. Adoration. A walk in woods, or a lovely garden. The friends who love me. Sunrise. Remembering how blessed I am. Scripture. The ocean. Mountains. The gift of each new day …

May tender, healing Love enfold you and embrace you.
May you be well … may all manner of things be well. ( A modification of a quote: “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Julian of Norwich )