How Are We All Doing?
Checking in with an invitation to notice the shimmering things.
Hi friends,
Tomorrow is day 10 of our 40 day journey through The Remarkable Ordinary. It’s hard to believe that we are almost a quarter of the way through Lent.
When I was training to be a spiritual director, we were encouraged to be awake to the “shimmering” things - the words or phrases or bodily gestures that seemed to be asking to be noticed. This evening, unexpectedly, I have a quiet house and I’m taking a little time to reflect on what has shimmered for me in the passages we’ve explored together so far.
I wondered if you might like to join me.
Substack has a chat feature which I have not yet explored but think might be rather lovely as a place for us to share what’s particularly stood out (shimmered) for us in this journey so far. Perhaps there’s a story, phrase or image that has stayed with you. Or perhaps it was one of my reflection prompts that really captured your attention or made you stop and wonder.
Whatever it is, I would be thrilled if you’d share it with us in the chat. I’ll be starting it off by sharing two of Buechner’s phrases that have shimmered for me.
Alternatively, if you’re appreciating the solitude that this virtual book group allows, perhaps you might want to take some time to reflect by yourself and allow your noticings to open an inner conversation.
Either way, please know how much I appreciate your presence here with me. It has been an honour and a joy to send you these passages and I look forward to continuing our journey together.
PS if you’re enjoying this journey and you’d like to get to know me a little better, I’d love to write to you from my main Substack account letters from a soul friend. I mostly write about spirituality and seasonal living which, for me, are very much connected (I encounter the Divine in many places but particularly through the natural world). This week I shared a story from my garden which, I hope, invites you to ponder what’s beginning to grow from the soil of your soul and then encourages you to treat it with the same care and tenderness that I offer to my camellias. I’ve titled it ‘Blessing the Becoming’ and you can read it here.
