The holy is not confined or restricted to what we call “normal.”
• My eyes are open to the sacrament of the present moment, knowing that the ordinary is the hiding place for the holy.
• My eyes are open to the sacred, in compassionate gestures and hospitality and small heroes and big virtual hugs.
• My eyes are open to the deep river running in each of us.
• My eyes are open to hope found in clarity with no need for arrogance, cruelty, fighting, or paranoia.
• My eyes are open to the invitation to give up the control that I clutched.
I can freely admit that the boxes we put life in (our expectations and our ways to manage) are inadequate. So, I tell people that having your world shaken isn’t a bad thing. Scary, yes. But transformation is closer than we know.
—from the book Stand Still: Finding Balance When the World Turns Upside Down
by Terry Hershey
