An Irish proverb tells us there are three slender things that support the world: a stream of cow’s milk into a pail, a growing blade of corn, and a thread being woven into cloth. To the ancient Celts, these things were staples of life.
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Rising in the morning and stumbling through the normal routine, shower, dress, prep for work. So much of our lives are lived on automatic, drop the kids at school, drive to work, work all day long and reverse, to pick up the kids, run errands, run kids around, make (or pick up) supper and so on until you fall into bed exhausted. Does this sound like your life? It is how most of us live.
You can’t experience every moment of your life, you’d never get through the day. You can, however, try to be mindful of those moments. One Sunday morning, I got up to find my husband and daughters lounging in the living room reading the paper. Now my kids have since all moved out as they are adults and living their own lives. In that moment, I just watched and listened to them. Took in the moment, which sounds really silly but see at that point I knew my daughters would soon be leaving us.
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In her beautiful book Celtic Devotional, Caitlin Matthews suggests a Lunar Meditation on the scent of flowers, one I thought perfect for the new season Litha has brought us. All around us flowers are blooming, delighting the eye and perfuming the air with fragrance. What better analogy for summer, and life, really, than the scent of a flower?
Is there anything that compares? Yes, I suppose so: fresh peaches, the scent of a baby's hair. But flowers have a scent unrivalled by anything else. Sweet, but strong, faint but carrying.
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