my spiritual practice? oh you mean having hard conversations, stumbling & repairing, getting 1% better daily, accepting responsibility (these are much more difficult for me than the below)
Be soft on yourself, be tender with your spirit. This isn’t easy, it’s work. It is absolutely work for me to look at myself, to look at my patterns and my habits and my ways of being. The work is the process; they are interchangeable. On the other side of this work, though, is freedom, lightness. After all, it’s lighter than you think.
Marlee Grace • How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care
Miracles, emotional breakthroughs, and profound moments of radical change do happen, and need to happen, but they are not the daily path of discipleship. Like growth spurts or invasive surgeries in a child or adolescent, they are an essential part of our development as persons, but most of our growth is a slow, incremental but noticeable maturation
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