love and be happy

When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more, And be happy.

Rumi

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I woke up early this morning

I didn't have to

I am taking a breahter

not preaching

for

a 

month

yet here I am

6 am

awake

thinking

mind churning

already engaged in the week

on the other side of this day

what ever happened to today

why not shut off the mind

why not quit looking back

and quit looking forward

and just

be

 Maybe I should......

pet the cat

sit on the patio and read

enjoy the horses as they race around the pasture

feeling their oats

(OK, alfalfa treats)

pull a few weeds

enjoy the flowers

watch a cloud float by

watch the birds eat at my feeders

(they are really lovely little things) 

do

nothing

but crawl my way back to center

where

the sacred lives

and I

do 

too

Maybe I should just love

and be happy

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“If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.”         Wayne Muller