My grandma has spent her life focusing on what’s in front of her, trusting that what’s right there is hers to do. Even when things are difficult, my grandma chooses to be present. She’s fallen a few times as she’s gotten older. Once she fell in the garden, and since she’d left her alert button behind, she couldn’t call anyone for help. When my cousin found her, she was sitting in the middle of a circle of clean soil and arm’s length in every direction. She had weeded everything she could reach. When she told me about it later, she laughed: “I figured while I was down there, I might as well get to work!”
I want to do my best to show up in every moment, trusting that the people and projects I encounter are worthy. I want to build a life that allows me to practice sacred acts of generosity. I want to extend profound acts of love. I want to grow in my awareness that everything is connected, trusting that if I delight in the holy moments of the everyday, I am choosing what is good.
This message is excerpted from “What is good” by Amy White in the January/February 2020 Gather magazine.
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