What we’re near shapes us and changes us.
What are you near? What books? What people? What ideas?
Maybe there’s a better question…What should you be near?
The answer will come to you when you pause long enough to look and listen.
For those of us blessed with vision, so much of our experiences in life hinges in our eyes.
If you want to be a skeptic, you will find endless reasons to be skeptical.
If you want to be a pessimist, you will find plenty to be pessimistic about.
What we see will be predicted by what we want to see and why we want to see it.
Jesus once said, “Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar.” Matthew 6:22
Light > Dank
What we want is wonder.
What we need to get us there is curiosity.
The world has always changed with askers, seekers, and knockers.
Have you ever noticed where your mind goes on a long drive? Empty horizons open our minds.
Or have you ever just stood on the shore and stared across the vacant blue waves? Consistent rhythms of nothing always refresh, remind, and restore.
When it comes to your to-do list, leave some space for space.
With all things we seek to make music with and in there’s a groove.
Music, at its core, is all about congruence.
Relationships groove in the Golden Rule.
Business (and branding) grooves in kept promises.
Parenting grooves in presence.
And then there’s our lives…and the groove is found here when the eyes of the heart make their way into the world through the paths of our hands and feet. Simply put, when the exterior mirrors the interior, this is to have found congruence with our lives.
The work and the reward is in the groove leading us to congruence.
Ashton.Gustafson 