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Day 2587 – Day 2671
It has been a long time since I’ve written here. So much has been going on and this year has been a tribulation. I feel that I’ve been tested over and over again and if I have not failed the tests, it is owing to my faith and to my practice of gratitude.
I have been silent and in the stillness, I not only preserve, but I also find my strength. Prayer and meditation are useful tools for the grieving. I highly recommend them, in these challenging times.
I’ve been taking a lot of sleep and engaging in positive distractions and I’ve taken a few walks, but less than I’ve wanted to take. Our weather has had a lot to do with that. We’ve had horrendous storms that have caused floods and destruction of biblical proportions. There has been a lot of grief in the witnessing.
It is appropriate that I am coming to the end of this year of practices (most of which is on YouTube, with the exception of the final quarter of the year, which I will create and post in 2022, when I feel I am ready to leave this period of mourning) with soulfulness, faith, hope, love and soul-work. If you are part of my email list, you will have been getting weekly guidance on a month of practices. Soulfulness seems the culmination of all we’ve done so far this year. In the face of adversity, only the soul can make sense of things.
I don’t have much to say, today. But people have been reaching out to me because I have been so silent. My hope has been to be an example and an encouragement to others, but sometimes, in being that example, it is necessary to model self care and for me, right now, that is stillness. I just wanted to drop in and let you know that I’m still here, still profoundly grateful, and still faithful to this work. Although its simple, I want to encourage you to find the good in every day. Every day, no matter how trying, there is something good. If you can’t find it, be silent and listen to what arises, in the stillness.
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