THE DAILY SPARK

SETBACK

Smoke from Canadian Fires impacting quality of air in Maryland 2023

A SETBACK is a SETUP for a COMEBACK.

Quote by T.D. Jakes

REFLECTION:

  • Are you experiencing a setback?
  • Could it be you are being set up for a big comeback?
  • Perhaps you need to be more resourceful to make a comeback.
  • What does that look like? 
  • What action can you take to comeback even stronger?

SEARCH THE DARKNESS

Galaxy of Glow Worms that illuminated the top of the cave - Nile River Caves in Charleston, New Zealand

Sit with your friends; don’t go back to sleep. 

Don’t sink like a fish to the bottom of the sea.

Surge like an ocean, don’t scatter yourself like a storm.

Life’s waters flow from darkness.  Search the darkness, don’t run from it.

Night travelers are full of light, and you are, too; don’t leave this companionship.

Be a wakeful candle in a golden dish, don’t slip into the dirt like quicksilver.

The moon appears for night travelers, be watchful when the moon is full.

Poem by RUMI

REFLECTION:

  • Do you run from darkness?  Try to escape what you fear?
  • What if you could embrace the darkness?
  • Everyone has a dark/shadow side that they often try to repress or hide from others.  Yet RUMI is encouraging us to search the darkness.  Sit with friends and travel companions. 
  • Light awaits.

SUFFERING Vs. FREEDOM

Fear TIMES resistance equals suffering.

Fear TIMES presence equals freedom.

 

Tara Brach

REFLECTION:

  • When you name a fear, it doesn’t have as much control. 
  • When we resist… refuse to accept what is, we suffer.
  • When we become present … accept – “it is what it is” there is a path to freedom.
  • What are you resisting?  
  • How can you presence this situation and open the door to a new freedom.