This first micro-video is welcoming you
to the first gift but to also explain the flow and the process for what you can expect. |
This first of eight chapters is about remembering stillness within the stresses of the frontlines of love & caregiving.
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Intro to Wait Here: micro-videos |
This micro-video will explain this chapter
and what to do. |
The consistent concept in all the Daily Eight is the power of SWEET SMALL STEPS. No matter what stressors you find yourself within or in front of you with incremental steps, you will return to center. Which holds the key to feeling your LOVELY ENOUGHNESS ...and that, my friend, makes it a better day |
"Until you bottom out, and come to the limits of your own fuel supply, there is no reason for you to switch to a higher octane of fuel...You will not learn to actively draw upon a Larger Source until your usual resources are depleted and revealed as wanting. In fact, you will not even know there is a Larger Source until your own sources and resources fail you.
Until and unless there is a person, situation, event, idea, conflict, or relationship that you cannot 'manage," you will never find the True Manager. So, God makes sure that several things will come your way that you cannot manage on your own."
- Richard Rohr, Breathing Underwater - Spirituality and the Twelve Steps.
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Listen to the Audible audio the chapter... |
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Process: 2 Minutes of Stillness.The practice of pausing is courageous in many ways that are surprising. When we gather ourselves to NOW, we grow a little more clarity for our next right move, which is a huge benefit for an investment of a couple of minutes...
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Breathe Consciously & Repeat on the inhale: ‘Wait Here’ (or other words that speaks to you)
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This micro-video will walk you through the process
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Questions to write about ...because your experience matters. |
Write in a journal you already have or make this DIY resiliency journal to consider your experiences more thoroughly. You probably have everything you need to make it: a printer, a 3 hole punch and a loose leaf binder... Download the PDF pages at right:
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Read Chapter: Wait Here - GIFT No. 1 |
The cold ceramic floor was sucking out her warmth as we waited for the San Francisco EMTs. I touched Betty to reassure her—or me; she was icy. Her head gash would need stitches and the doctors would later find a cracked vertebra. None of it stopped her from joking about how cute the paramedics were when they did arrive. |
HUMOR WAS EVEN MORE UNEXPECTED IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM. Her healthcare workers were perplexed, then charmed by it (especially, if they saw me modeling laughter). Or they might miss the joke entirely and report me to the authorities. “My daughter beats me.” Betty had said this in response to the ER staff’s private questions about the source of her many bruises from nocturnal falls. When I asked her the same thing about the new bruise du jour, she’d say, “How would I know?” It was as if I had asked about a dent in the bumper of some rental car parked on the street. Maybe she was in shock or perhaps it was her natural wit, but she thought this account was very funny.
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Gift No. 1 is from both the books: Begin Again as well as the Field Guide. Available for purchase from Amazon, Apple and IngramSpark.
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Click the icon above to download the Journal Pages for this chapter: Wait Here.
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Wait Here might be your next best move—an important internal shift facilitated by stillness. Living in the future stopped me from seeing what was right in front of me—real choices not just more-of-the-same anxious looping. Wait Here.
Stop struggling. Have a quantum of faith, Wait Here for the goodness to catch up |