JANUARY 19
Trade with the gifts God has given you.
—HILDA OF WHITBYAt no time more than when we are grieving do we need to
pay attention to the person we are. Something vastly import-
ant has been taken away. What are we left with? What else
that is important to us is still here?
A grieving man asks a spiritual guide, “What can I do to
regain my equilibrium?”
The guide says, “You are tired. Sit in a lounge chair in the
sun and get in touch with how your body feels. Listen to
what your breathing tells you. Feel the muscles in your legs.
Then let your mind wander. Listen to your thoughts. What
rises to the top? What calls to you?”
An inner conversation like this may help those of us who
are grieving “get back on track” once more. Are there hob-
bies we value and haven’t paid much attention to? Projects
we have waited until “later” to pursue? Some work of service
we had enjoyed but seem to have moved away from? To
pick up some of the important threads we may have set
aside is to hasten the reweaving of our life into a coherent
pattern again.
I will be on the lookout today for ways to use the unique gifts God
has given me.