people finding open spaces

Finding enough time and open space in each day to think creatively, to contemplate what is true, beautiful, and inspiring, and to engage in the lives of the people around us seems to be some of the biggest challenges we all regularly face.  These activities, and why we do them, are some of the issues of conversation at our gatherings - as we investigate practical opportunities to assist and help people in need within our circles of acquaintances, those at our places of employment, the people just down the hall, in our neighbourhoods, and those people we just seem to be lead to care for and love.  Something More is what we wish would happen to us each time we need encouragement or practical help.  Something More was established, having tasted of the aloneness and need for friendship and community (even living in a crowded city), to be the second family many of us desire.

tasting the goodness

In the past few years, as my body ages and my lifestyle becomes more filled will the care of people, especially our three young children, I get to see fewer and fewer jaw-dropping, panaramic views from mountian tops.  And gone now is my adrenaline-driven teens and twenties.  But I'm learning that this same sense of overwelming joy and amazement doesn't just come with excessive speed, or on a court, or take five hours to get to.  I'm now finding it more easily and daily when I take time to appreciate what I've been given, in the tasting of the deeper meaning, and in feeling that sudden rush of freedom, peace, and contentment that comes only in trusting, safe relationships.  And I'm experiencing that sense of wonder and amazement when I allow myself the realization that I have finally found that long saught-after sweet-spot of living out my destiny.