Rumi gets it. No matter the thought or emotion, allow it, welcome it. I am learning to welcome fears of declining health; I am not just yet able to meet them at the door laughing. The door, however, is open, and the Welcoming Prayer ushers them inside.
Merton gets it. We have to withdraw “from the noise and the confusion of a world that does not understand itself…” I must maintain a contemplative discipline to carry on God’s work and find the peace God wills for me.
My breath prayer this week: welcome; peace. <3 linda
