This week I'll tell the story of sitting by the water for a short while just witnessing the world, and learning that I want to do more of that.
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Here are some resources to help you dig into this week's topic on your own:
1. Video: 12-day Rhododendron blooming time-lapse
2. IG live: artist Scott Erickson on who's in charge of surprise
3. Substack: Letters from Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. Song: I Got You Babe, by Sonny & Cher
5. Raised Catholic Podcast/transcript: Contemplative Summer Week Three: Contemplating Nature (check out the whole series wherever you get your podcasts
6. Journal question:
Stop in a given moment and ask yourself: what do I see, what do I hear, what do I smell, what do I taste, what can I touch that point me toward God - what can I know about Him and His nature based on what I am experiencing?
7. Poem by Mary Oliver:
Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
8. Book: Devotions - The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
