".....I would like my message here to be a changing one. And I would like it to be available. What do I mean by available? Not everyone has a blog or wants to have one. But everyone who reads, would at times like to write. Something. You could do that here. You could say what you want to say on my blog....."
That's what I said the last time I posted here. Rose and Sara wrote back, and that felt good. I like the idea of being changing and available. The changing part, we don't have much choice about. Available is more an attitude or way of being. It can change too. Sometimes I experience myself as available. It feels open and generous, fulsome, rich with possibility. Whether alone or with others. Sometimes I experience myself as not available. That feels not so good.
If we say that this blog is changing and available, would that mean anything to you? What?
To me it means alive, and thus inviting, engaging, challenging, uncontrollable. Today's quote from the monastery: That which has been successfully defined has been successfully killed (Christmas Humphreys).
ReplyDeleteAlive, inviting, engaging, challenging, uncontrollable........well, that seems a thread worth following. Thanks, Sara.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking of a rewrite for "acedia." I'm not sure what quality would be the substitute for acedia, sloth. Maybe 'faithfulness.' In any case, I would like us to think about embracing a definition such as,
.....to not always know the good, but to be steadfast in its pursuit..... What do you think?