{"id":112074,"date":"2024-09-04T14:42:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=112074"},"modified":"2024-09-04T14:42:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T21:42:27","slug":"reflections-on-daily-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/112074-reflections-on-daily-grace","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Daily Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a weeklong retreat known as Living in Grace<\/a>. I have found that my everyday life\u2014the quotidian rhythm of 365 days a year\u2014 is a fractal expression of what comes out of this training. When I hear a particular song on the radio, I imagine how beautiful or fun, as the case may be, it would be to hear the song played in a cuddle. Particular John-Roger seminars that I hear throughout my daily practice inspire me to imagine that I am facing the Pacific Ocean on the Monterey peninsula hearing the seminar played through my headphones as I breathe in the beautiful ocean air and hear seabirds.<\/p>\n

The noise of my mind and the generation of images, feelings, states of mind from the unconscious as they float through my awareness on a particular day remind me of the opportunity to simply let these things go into the Light in a stream of consciousness, as I have practiced so many times in this retreat setting.<\/p>\n

The reference points of the beautiful, heartfelt connections with process partners allow me to have an opening for similar connection with the people I encounter in my day. The gorgeous nature of the Monterey peninsula invites me into a similar state of appreciation for the chickadee perched on the branch of a tree as I walk through the woods, the heave-to of a giant tree that has fallen in the storm, the moss growing over centuries on a rock, the Virginia bluebell with its brilliant blue and psychedelic green.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a reference point. Here I am walking on a path. I am walking in Grace here. I am drinking in a brilliant sunset from the rocking chair on my porch. I am living in the grace of the sunrise. Here I am tapping into vibrations that evoke my soul as I do my spiritual exercises. I am living in the grace of this moment when all souls are connected, whether in our morning spiritual exercises in a seminar or in this moment, when I appear to be by myself. The sunrise over the ocean in my place in Florida is as delicious as the sunrise peeking through the Monterey Pines as I walk in the early morning light.<\/p>\n

Each PTS Living in Grace<\/a> training has potentially 15 to 20 hours of sharing with the Traveler. I am living in Grace when I hear an excerpt or seminar that is clipped from one of these trainings that I attended in person, soundbites show up regularly, and are part of how I integrate living in grace into a daily practice.<\/p>\n

John-Roger invites us to approach life as \u201cminimizing the downtime.\u201d There\u2019s a playful state I often find myself experiencing in a Living in Grace training. When I am in my daily life, whether I am walking backwards on a path, balancing on the top of a curb for my walk, attending a Laughter Yoga class with my friends, sharing common experience in a Zoom sharing or finding a belly laugh moment with my wife, I am reminded of the freedom that comes from play and laughter.<\/p>\n

I experience this playful state frequently in my daily living in grace bubble.<\/p>\n

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For more information or to register for the upcoming Living In Grace Retreat, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a weeklong retreat known as Living in Grace. I have found that my everyday life\u2014the quotidian rhythm of 365 days a year\u2014 is a fractal expression of what comes out of this training. When I hear a particular song on the radio, I imagine how beautiful or fun, as the case may be, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}