September 11, 2025

They live around making a life at Peggy's Cove.
We live detached from making a life.
We make a life "at the office," 
or somewhere out of sight.
Away from where our life is lived.

I like the idea of living being what we do
wherever we are,
by giving ourselves to what is called for
in each moment.

Do not put off what is called for!
I wish life worked like that.
And it could work like that if we would just 
"get in the zone" of doing what is called for,
where, when and how it is called for
wherever, whenever, however we are.

It only takes a shift in attention to do it,
and putting wanting in its place.

Wanting directs our living.
We have to put wanting aside in order to see 
what's happening here, now, and what that calls for here, now,
never mind what we want.

The story of the Garden of Eden is a metaphor about wanting.
Wanting that gets in the way of doing what is called for is sin.
The primary sin.

Doing what is called for here, now is the cross that is ours to bear.

Atonement and redemption are about getting back on track and making doing what is called for the most important thing, never mind what we want.

That is the practice--doing what is called for--we all are asked to take up and perfect throughout the time left for living, wherever, whenever we are.