"You can achieve your aims through the enouragement of others. Encouragement is one of the great powers...Kindness and gentleness in your relations brings allegience, co-operation and ultimately, success." ( I Ching, No. 58, Thinking Body, Dancing Mind)
Little voices at 7am, filling the house and my thoughts turn to listening in the stillness of my covers. A toliet flushes, a dry night for one child, and the other pulling at the crib bars for release from his toddler confines. Drawing yesterday's lesson from the mind and body, freshly embedded, pressing it into the pages of today. Even so early, the currency is piled around us.
I will focus energies today, despite whatever might be going on with me, to encourage everyone else around me in order to celebrate the positive power of nourishing others--this energy, circular in nature, should, theoretically, come back on me as well and allow me to thrive and find inner peace and strength; this will be my aim. A day has many hours in it, and today is Saturday.
Another father told me yesterday that a Saturday is "a lot of hours to fill with finding something to do with your kids...it's hard" Things can be hard for us all the time given teh myriad of responsibilities, right? I do agree with the feeling, but I must say, everything is possible on a Saturday, and all of those hours will be encouraged so that my wife, three children and myself make the very most of the chance to find the keys to this Saturday.
Zen-Daddy
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