{"id":159,"date":"2022-11-04T08:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2022-11-04T08:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T08:26:25","slug":"this-is-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahcledwynblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/this-is-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Day\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"

My spirit play friends were busy \u201cworking\u201d with our story last week, with many children absorbed in various activities. \u00a0One friend worked with a rubber band board, a piece of wood with nails pounded half way into it to make a grid. \u00a0She showed me and then added to her work and then called me over again.<\/p>\n

The Day God Made Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cTell me about it\u201d, I requested. \u00a0She told me it was the day God made us. \u00a0Now that is something you don\u2019t see every day. \u00a0I asked her to elaborate, to tell me more, but she had no grand story to match her work of art. \u00a0She asked me to look and see the vertical stress and then to look and see the stress to the sides. \u00a0\u201cLook at the stress lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

I had many more questions, but she wanted to move on to play with other things. \u00a0I wonder though, what day she was talking about. \u00a0Was it the day of the big bang? \u00a0Was it the day of our conception? \u00a0Was it today when we woke up? \u00a0Is it right now as we inhale?<\/p>\n

And what kind of stress must have been present at any of those moments, or days? \u00a0Do new life and creation always flow from stress or tension? \u00a0If so, how might we view those experiences in our life with more positive regard? \u00a0There is an idea in spirituality that we should regard all our difficulties as teachers and those hard things in life as invitations and opportunities to grow. \u00a0What does the stress of trying to create a calm space for several wiggly 3 and 4 year olds have to teach me? \u00a0What does the discomfort of my own internal judgement invite me to learn? \u00a0In that tension, what do the stress lines look like? \u00a0What new creation do they make possible?<\/p>\n

These are things I have been sitting with this week. \u00a0And I have taken those questions into my teaching practice. \u00a0And I have taken those questions into my own meditation practice. \u00a0Sometimes we can\u2019t know or see what kind of new life may arise as we sit and reflect. \u00a0Sometimes we can only make it through the tension of the exhale as it invites the next breath. \u00a0In this moment I am made and made anew. \u00a0That looks like evolution and growth, imperceptibly, but always changing and being transformed. \u00a0This is the day. \u00a0This is a new day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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