Scripps Sundays

  Walk, Don’t Run That’s it. Walk, don’t run. Slow down, breathe deeply, and open your eyes because there’s a whole world right here within this one. The bush doesn’t suddenly catch on fire, it’s been burning the whole time. Moses is simply moving slowly enough to see it. And when he does, he takes off his sandals. Not because the ground has suddenly become holy, but because he’s just now becoming aware that the ground has been holy the whole time. Efficiency is not God’s highest goal for your life, neither is busyness, or how many things you can get done in one day, or speed, or even success. But walking, which leads to seeing, now that’s something. That’s the invitation for every one of us today, and everyday, in every conversation, interaction, event, and moment: to walk, not run. And in doing so, to see a whole world right here within this one. — Rob Bell

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  sent early since you are leaving on Friday for your hike....  and this is PERFECT for your time soaking up the beauty next week....  For This I Walk Outside  Not to escape the world, but to be more wholly in it. Sharp cold stings my cheeks — not like a slap, but like the thrilling burn of whiskey as it blazes down the throat — the kind of wild aliveness that brooks no choice but to wake up to life, to champion it, to know life as the most wondrous thing even as I steep in the ugliness we humans commit. This is what life asks of us. I walk outside to be more wholly here, here the way the Stellar’s jay is here. Even on the coldest day, its every fluffing, every peck, every head bob, every flight is in service to life. It’s never confused about its purpose. I want to be in service. Outside, everything is teacher: the cold, the snow, the bird, the day, this fallible, fabulous human race, this improbable, beautiful planet in space. To serve life,...

  While I imagine you have read this poem before, it is such a gift to have this read out loud by Helena Bonham Carter in the video above....

A beautiful reflection below for Lent this week…. A Year of Fasting This year I am giving up “should” and this will make more room to discover… God, my authentic self, my joy, that my burden is easy and my yoke is so light, that I am loved for who I am, period, that the risks of vulnerability and truthfulness are greatly outweighed by the depth of love, friendship and compassion that taking these risks allow, that I will suffer much less, that I will live more fully in the moment, that I will become more accepting of myself and of others. So I’m warning you now, in a year, you may barely recognize me -           Clarence Heller