The DAILY SPARK Blog

LOOKING AT…LOOKING THROUGH

Gordes, France...looking out on Provence

Before fixing what you’re looking at, check what you’re looking through….  “Got a dirty eye, see a dirty world.”

FROM:  Mark Nepo: Book of Awakening – quote from his wise grandmother.

REFLECTION:

  • What lens are you looking through?  Do you perceive the world as broken, angry, troubled?
  • Do you perceive you life as broken, troubled?
  • Check what lens you are looking at life through.
  • Do you need to make any changes… clean your lenses?

FOCUS ON THE LIGHT

Some people get addicted to chain-smoking their problems.  They spend all day going from sorrow to sorrow.  It doesn’t have to be that way.  You can live each day going from joy to joy – like a sunflower that turns to face the sun as it moves across the sky.  It’s not about having a problem-free life, but about focusing on the light.  Sunflowers still have shadows, but they are always behind them. 

Quote by James Clear 3-2-1 Thursday Blog

REFLECTION:

  • Are you addicted to sorrow?
  • You have a choice to go from joy to joy!
  • How can you focus on the light today… the joys… little joys of living?

TWO WAYS

THE PONT DU GARD AQUEDUCT IN NIMES, FRANCE

There are two ways to do anything.  We can do it in order to make life better for me, or we can do it in order to make life better for someone else, as well as for me.  The first way gets the thing done; the second way gets the thing done and makes life a sacrament.

Quote by Sister Joan Chittister

 

REFLECTION:

  • Do you do things in order to make life better for you?
  • What can you do today to make life better for you AND someone else?