Your gifting + Activity = Your story.
Your gifting + No activity = Your story.
Ashton.Gustafson
Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.
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Hello my name is Love
Everyday we put one of these on.
What if we paused before writing a name on the sticker?
What if we thought about the view from our best, truest, and highest self? The unoffendable self…the beautiful self….and from there wrote a name to live from and through.
May we all imagine this sticker over our hearts today as we meet and engage the worlds we have all been entrusted.
And while you’re at it, let this song take you on a journey.
Peace out…
…won’t be possible without allowing some peace in.
So we must choose how we will see and posture ourselves today.
For how we see is how we will be.
Yes, the eye is indeed the lamp of the body.
Every Sunday we hold a picture that was first stroked with the paint from Monday’s eyes.
Are you open or are you closed today?
This will affect your painting today and tomorrow.
For if we are closed, we will paint with the stumbling colors of cynicism, critique, and separation.
But if we are open, we will paint with the flowing colors of possibility, hope, and healing.
I’ve never seen the word pain hidden in the word paint until today.
Transform > Transmit
Podcast 63: A Conversation with Sister Joan Chittister
Sister Joan Chittister has beautifully become a conduit for the message of faith, hope, and love for over sixty years. Following the heritage and the order of Saint Benedict, Sister Joan has become one of today’s leading spiritual voices, bringing her energy and fiery spirit to everything she does. It’s through this voice that builds bridges across all religions that Sister Joan joins us at Let The Music Play Podcast as we discuss discovering the presence of the Divine under our very feet and how we can honor and celebrate the humanity of everyone whose path we intersect.
You can stream and download this episode and all other episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast in iTunes or at AshtonGustafson.com.
Normal, Usual, & Mundane.
Start with your breath.
Find a way to see and seize this moment by just the inhale and exhale of each breath.
Nothing special, right?
But what would the next minute be like without that breath?
Now imagine the hour with out it.
Now the day.
Now the year.
Now your life.
Once you can come to know each inhale and exhale as a gift you can then start to see the vast generosity of the world and space you’ve been entrusted.
To center in and with your breath is to become aware…and the degree to which we are cognizant of our being, electricity, and flow within us is the same degree to which we will experience and understand every minute that is being ushered into existence around us.
Notice there isn’t a right way to breathe….there isn’t a left way to breathe either….and there isn’t a female way to breathe…and there isn’t a male way to breathe…there isn’t an old way to breathe…and there isn’t a young way to breathe.
There’s simply breath and breathing.
And once the moment has become still enough for you to see that the universal playing field is level, the only appropriate reflex will be to just start doing things and gifting things so that humanity can play in the universe.
Be.
Do.
Have.
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