A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about adrienne maree brown's question, "How are you holding this?" I think it's a much better question than "How are you doing?" "How are you doing?" inspires insipid answers: "Fine." "How are you holding this?" lets people respond more honestly if they wish. It's a different way of thinking about our emotional state.
Yesterday I came across another question I want to remember. In this article, Christine Valters Paintner says that her spiritual director asked this profound question: “What is it the season for?” She goes on to elaborate: "It was a profoundly freeing question, because it honored that my life had varying seasons, times when certain things were called for and other things needed to be released."
I am not good at resting in the season I'm in; I'm often looking back or looking forward. I am so often eager to get to the next season. And if I'm honest, I don't always even realize that I'm in one type of season and not a different one.
Let me begin this new spiritual practice. Let me remember to ask what season I'm in, what the season needs, what I need in terms of the season. Just as I rarely crave mulled apple cider during the summer months, perhaps I will find that different spiritual/life cycle seasons require different types of sustenance.
Perhaps focusing on the season will help me move with intention.
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