Today finds me grateful - back home after a week of safe and satisfying travels to Southern California. One of the highlights of the trip was experiencing The Lion King. I was enthralled – enraptured with the sounds and sights of my first Broadway experience! Now I’m back on the stage of my ordinary life – catching up with cleaning and yard work, getting essential errands run – trying to get back into the groove of the day to day without loosing my focus and center.
During Lent and the Easter Season I found that certain practices helped establish a practical rhythm that kept me on track. Sometimes I need an assignment to get ‘er done. A good book points the way - The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and "Women's Work" (Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality) by Kathleen Norris begins with a quote by Gregory of Nyssa:
“Let us remember that the life in which we ought to be interested is “daily” life. We can, each of us, only call the present time our own… Our Lord tells us to pray for today, and so he prevents us from tormenting ourselves about tomorrow. It is as if [God] were to say to us: “[It is I] who gives you this day [and’ will also give you what you need for this day. [It is I] who makes the sun to rise. [It is I] who scatters the darkness of night and reveals to you the rays of the sun.”
But I don’t want to read my life, I want to live it.
So, as I live this day, in the day to day, I choose an attitude of gratitude even in the ordinary.
No comments:
Post a Comment