Every day miracles In this season of giving thanks and gifts I offer you this lovely reflection on ‘routine’ from David Whyte that came into my inbox this week. I pass it on with thanks for routinely receiving these newsletters every second Friday. I also offer a deep bow to your practice of mindfulness as a daily ritual of simply turning up, attending to each moment with presence, and finding the smallest of miracles in the ordinary days and hours. —————— ‘Routine is the way we worship fully at the altar of the timeless. Routine is the way we step down from what is absolutely extraordinary into the miracle of an ordinary day and an ordinary hour. Routine is disguised ritual. At its very best, routine is a central pillar of an inquisitive life, a consciously performed ritual, a living, repeated invitation: a way of constantly creating and deepening possibilities, and of actually getting something done over time. Routine that carries the timeless and the exploratory, can become the central foundation of keeping a relationship alive, of writing a book, raising a family, building a house. We make a miracle out of simply turning up, at the same time, to do the same good work. We watch that work mature, slowly, with our daily visitations, into something we could not fully imagine, before we gave ourselves over to that daily, dedicated, repeated, miraculous act of appearance and disappearance at the waiting desk or at our well-loved familiar workbench.’ David Whyte
An extract from ’Routine’ published in Consolations II
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