Good afternoon, Chaverim,
Happy Monday! This feels like a perfect “start the week” quote (and just happens to have a nice through line from Friday’s quote).
Here is today’s Everyday Gratitude Quote in the Middle of a Pandemic:“ In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that’s a whole different thing.”
-Lucille Clifton
Q. for Consideration: What are you called to be?
I am grateful to be at the stage of life where I can fairly easily distinguish the qualitative difference between “doing” something and “being” something…entirely different things indeed. I wasn’t always there. I think many of us get so caught up in our frantic day-to-day “doing” that we get disconnected from ourselves. Maybe it’s a function of “age and stage” that calls us (maybe the privilege that allows us?) to take the time to look inward, to prioritize finding “purpose”, to develop our spiritual selves, to just “be” long enough that we are able to remember (or discern), renew and reconnect with our souls and with the “whys and wherefores” that underpin and motivate what it is we are “doing”.
This does not in any way negate the importance of doing, the importance of action. We must do and we must act, but we also need to be able to move beyond habitual doing and acting, beyond all the busyness that fills our lives (24/7 if we let it) so that we might remain in touch with our essential selves, with that place deep within that “knows”, that fearless, kind, compassionate (maybe “holy”?) self. Then, we can both “be” and “do” in ways that are aligned, that are consistent with our values and beliefs, and that allow us to discover, live as, and “be” that unique “something” the universe is “asking”/calling us to be.
Marci
