THURSDAY MEDITATION

Are You Paying Attention To All The Astonishing Things Happening Today?

Go ahead. Be surprised. Be astonished. Be overjoyed.

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Spirit, give me a heart, soul, and mind to always be astonished and to allow this to be my spiritual devotion to You.

Mary Oliver has a quote:

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

It comes from an essay, Teach the Children, where she refers to paying attention as a beginning to devotion.

When you are able to pay attention to the small wonders of your day, you invite more joy, peace, love, and kindness into your heart, mind, and soul. You have a choice.

You can let the world delight you or beat you down.

In essence, you are teaching your children, yourself, and others that it becomes a devotion — a form of…