SuperK and I took a long hike today in a remote area of a nearby state park. It was an especially beautiful place -- very green and wet, water washing down a rocky creek, several waterfalls along the way. The trail was difficult which meant my overactive, ADHD brain had to concentrate on not falling down or over or off. Hiking a tough trail is like giving my brain a bunch of foam balls to juggle: it's so engrossed in not dropping a ball that it doesn't have time to obsess over something stupid.
I felt the presence of a Higher Power today.
At a men's spiritual retreat that I attended regularly the priest giving the presentation tried to help us become more adept at meditation. I was getting ready for all of the positions and breathing techniques and visualization strategies, and was surprised to hear him talk about art, then music, and finally nature.
"Why do you think that so many old monasteries were built in remote places?" he asked. "The monks knew what they were doing." Mountains, deserts, inaccessible islands, all places where it can be a lot easier to make that connection with a Higher Power via the power of nature.
Keep it . . . ahem, simple, as they say.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment