I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks...
Katrina KenisonReading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.
Katrina KenisonNow I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.
Katrina KenisonWhen we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention. When we choose to see and appreciate what is good and beautiful in our children, that goodness can't help but grow, and their beauty blossoms forth.
Katrina KenisonIf you want to be reborn,' it is written in the Tao Te Ching, 'let yourself die.' This is what I've been having trouble with, the fact that letting go can feel, at times, like a death. Someday, I know, I will lose everything. All the small deaths along the way are practice runs for the big ones, asking us to learn to be present, to grow in faith, to be grateful for what is. Life is finite and short. But this new task, figuring out how to let go of so much that has been precious -- my children, my youth, my life as I know it -- can feel like a bitter foretaste of other losses yet to come.
Katrina KenisonIf some essential part of me was already disappearing as my children moved into increasingly wider orbits, well then, I wanted to rech out and claim something else to take its place.
Katrina KenisonHome was this whole perfectly contained universe--town, friends, acquaintances, the streets we traveled every day...And we were about to leave it all.
Katrina KenisonGrowth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.
Katrina KenisonStay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away
Katrina KenisonMeaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.
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