Today begins the annual 64-day observation known as A Season for Peace and Nonviolence, which honors the vision for an empowered, nonviolent world. I’ve written more about it here and here.
If you’re interested in following a more formally-focused structure of a daily practice suggestion you might want to sign up for a daily email from 64 Days Practice Newsletter. The sign up form is at the top right on their site. Please know that I’m in no way affiliated with this group, but I do find it a meaningful practice to pay attention to all the ways we are called to nurture peace in our personal lives and in our collective communities.
As an example, today’s focus is on Courage. There are so many ways to look at this, and that for me is the beauty of the practice. Inviting in the energy, and then being open to how it shows up. I’ve been having a challenging few days – I’m experiencing some anxiety and wobbliness, and haven’t yet been able to find my balance.
So courage is a helpful companion to sit with as I look for my way.
And is always the way, when we ask for signs they show up. Mine came in the form of a reminder from the beautiful Hafiz
The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
To marry
Love.
How are you feeling courageous? Or where in your life would you like to invite courage to walk with you? I invite you to post a comment and we can all hold space for each other.
Lovely. I’ve been working to eradicate violent imagery from my language. I’ve slipped lately. This is a good reminder to me and I thank you for that. I do love this blog.
Thanks Arwen – and I do love having you visit. 🙂
Our culture doesn’t make it easy to avoid violent imagery, and when you have to work hard at being constantly vigilent it’s so easy to slip. Sending you some supportive energy to make the shifts you want.
I grew up in a violent family and grew away from it. Peace can be built one house at a time. Thanks for the post.
What a beautiful truth Sheila. And I honor and celebrate your contribution to peace in our world.
Deborah, Thank you for your thoughtful, as always, post. (And my honey money, I got it in the mail so fast!) . . . As I ponder your question about where I need courage . . . I think courage is needed for me to be less married to being productive! As I have been recovering from a bug & having less energy, it has become more obvious how attached I am to my “to do” list.
What a great insight Janet. Wishing you great success as you confront those productivity and to-do list binds.
And I’m happy to hear the honey money arrived so quickly – must have been those busy bees winging it to you.
I so love this. I’m going to check out the newsletter as it sounds right up my alley. Although I don’t look at myself as a particularly courageous person, I have had many refer to me that way. I’m going to take a look at this more 🙂
Good for you Michele. When people see things in us that we don’t, it always feels to me like an invitation to explore that more deeply and perhaps really claim it for ourselves. I think the caution is with things that we perceive as negative – so we don’t quickly glom on to something that makes us feel badly about ourselves and might not in fact be ours. But even then, having something named for us, even if we ultimately don’t claim it, feels like a rich opportunity to dig around.