Posted to Facebook April 12th
Life has been rich and full these last few months. It is all great and, I could feel I was ready for some quiet.
I spent Good Friday reading, going for a jog, choosing not to do some work I had scheduled for that day, taking a bath, eating pizza, and watching T.V. During the evening I looked over at my husband, with a Garfield grin on my face and said, "I am so content." I could not have been any more happy with that moment. Full belly, quiet mind, exercised body, cozy in front of the T.V. -- it had been the perfect recipe for the immense satisfaction I was feeling. So, does that mean that contentment comes from not working, eating pizza, and watching T.V.? Well it did for that day, but perhaps more accurately, I would say it comes from me listening, and following my bliss.
I think immense satisfaction from one's day can follow a strenous day of work, a family outing, writing a song, paddling on a lake, running a marathon, building sand castles, having laughs with some friends, completing a 'to do' list, or finding solutions at work. I think contentment comes from filling my moments with WIRA, and the expression of that can change from day to day, moment to moment. I think there will never be just one thing, that one way of being, that will fill me with that immense joy and satisfaction day after day. I think that contentment on Good Friday came not from what I was doing (pizza, bath, and T.V.), but from how I was being (surrendered, faith-filled, listening). I think being content is about me hearing and trusting my inspirations and following through on them.
LOP is not about just having one Good Friday a year, but about having lots of Good Fridays . . . and Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays too.