Return to the Practice
I found this while link-drifting from completely unrelated sites.
Return to the Practice
... even a little is never too late
In the bleak moments when you think you’ve gone off the wagon never to return again ...
When you can’t find the way back to that place that is your center ...
When you’re uncertain how to take that first step ...
Remember: there is a light in the darkness that guides you back and even a little action in the direction of your practice is never too late.
Being your practice - whatever your preferred practice might be - is about returning to the practice again and again, no matter how much time or space has passed for you between your last opportunity to practice and the current moment. Practicing is a life long opportunity and each day in each moment we have a choice to choose to be in our practice ... or not.
Years ago I heard a great story about this. Imagine, if you will, that you’re in your kitchen and you dropped a single egg from the dozen eggs in your hand. Would you then throw down the other eleven simply because you lost one? Or would you clean up the spill from the lost egg and carry on with your day?
Our practice is like the eggs - some days we simply lose an egg. Our opportunity in that moment is about how we be with that loss. This is an invitation for you to choose to be with that loss joyfully and compassionately, rather than from judgment. This is an invitation, even if you feel disconnected from what it might have been for you at some point in time, to simply return to the practice ...
Funny how that happens. Sifting through chert, and finding a gem.