Receiving Our Daily Round

If we count up the hours we make beds, wash dishes, run the vacuum or the lawn mower, pay bills, shop for groceries and cook, we will realize that we have spent not just days, but months and years in these activities. Every day we have a choice to just get through our daily round, or to live and savor the gift of it. This choice, however, takes deep awareness.

When we’ve been away either traveling or in the hospital, most of us realize that coming home feels precious...

M E D I T A T I O N

Water runs into the sink.
The soap foams up.
Here are the dishes for the third time today!
Can we be glad of having dishes to wash—
of having water and plates...


Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris