August 07, 2023 – A

We have an adversarial relationship
with our circumstances.
We step into them 
looking for ways to turn them 
to our advantage,
to wrest what we want from them,
to make them serve us 
and our idea of how things ought to be.

We never step into one
saying, "Well, well, what have we here?
What seems to be happening?
What is called for 
in service of the true good
of the circumstances as a whole?
What needs to happen here?
How can I help with the gifts
I have to offer--
my original nature
and my innate virtues/characteristics/
specialties/interests?
How can I make things here better
by the way I respond to them here/now?"

But, here we are, now.
And nothing says
we can't turn things around
and begin looking at every circumstance
as an opportunity to live there
in ways that are good for the people
who share it with us.

No?

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