Comments on: Beloved

By: Lindsay Knox

Lindsay Knox — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 03:30:33 +0000

In reply to Jer Swigart. I hear both of you (Jer and Meredith) suggesting that there is an editing or prioritizing process that could be possible (glass balls vs. plastic ones! I love that). It leads me to think that perhaps a practice of belovedness for me could be saying no to good things to care better for the best things. To believe I am beloved even if I don't do something I could do. Sounds easy--super hard for me in practice. Something to noodle on for sure. Good thoughts.

By: Lindsay Knox

Lindsay Knox — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 03:23:00 +0000

In reply to Ben Preiss. It is a really fair question to ask Ben, thanks. I know I need to cultivate a rhythm of stillness in my life, but I have not quite figured out where that lives inside my normal schedule. Our cabin is wonderful, but I recognize that I need to figure out how to get stillness without having to be in the middle of the woods without cell service....

By: Ben Preiss

Ben Preiss — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:16:40 +0000

Thank you for you post. I resonate with the desire to do it all and meet all the expectations. I am drawn to your anchor of stillness. Have you found way to incorporate a rhythm of stillness into your schedule? Are there moments of stillness that you carry with you into your daily routine?

By: Meredith McKay

Meredith McKay — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 02:35:17 +0000

A metaphor I’ve become a fan of for the juggling of all the many things is that of glass balls and plastic balls. The idea being we all juggle a lot of balls, and we’re bound to drop some. Ideally, we can do a good job of discerning which balls are plastic and which balls are glass to let the plastic balls drop so that we can pick them up when ready and minimize the shattering of the glass ones. It’s not a perfect metaphor in my view because I wish it didn’t take for granted the juggling of so many balls as reality of life… but it helps me settle down my inner lava monster. I hear you using different descriptors than “lava monster” here but I resonate with how you’ve articulated your interior life.

I delight in your description of the ways Kelly serves as anchor for you and in the naming of the ways he reminds you of whose you are without calling upon that which you produce. I wonder if there have been moments you can take from your experiences of stillness and belovedness to draw upon in your daily life to invite you to that experience of belovedness – and to extend my previous metaphor, to treat your belovedness and the relationships that call you into your belovedness as glass balls rather than plastic balls

By: Jer Swigart

Jer Swigart — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 01:09:34 +0000

I hear you saying that you become anchored in propelled by your belovedness in the stillness. In the care of a cherished relationship. Perhaps even in the honesty offered here. I wonder how embracing a ritual of sacrificing quantity for quality in the chaos of the tasks would also contribute to our sense of anchoredness and propulsion.