Third week running. But is it a habit yet—there’s the question!
Here are the ten things, in no particular order:
- using my heart as a barometer and mediator of a tense situation is a much better thing
- having tea and a long chat, with blankets over our legs, and Geronimo in the middle, is just such a luxury-that-needs-to-become-a-commodity
- my feelings are not nearly so easily hurt as they used to be
- I won’t be able to do everything I want to do in this lifetime. Something will need to be re-negotiated.
- even Geronimo doesn’t want to go out in the middle of the night when it’s sleeting. He likes snow but not rain. I guess that proves once and for all that he’s not a Labrador.
- forgetting to bring home the tamales that are in the freezer at work is just so different than forgetting to bring home the bacon
- seeing light in my friend’s eyes, that have been like a still, frozen pond for a long time, was like sipping light and feeling it as warm as a toddy after a long day of snowshoeing
- setting aside an Art Night (where roommate and I do art together) every other week is a dang good idea and the beginning of a fine custom
- ‘I’m never upset for the reasons I think’ (A Course in Miracles) is a powerful mantra for me, although it is a pretty sacred rabbit hole. You know?
- ‘Beware the temptation to feel yourself unjustly accused’ (A Course in Miracles) is the other powerful mantra that is teaching me so much these past 15 years.
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About Beth Patterson
The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.
With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.
Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.
I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.
Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.
Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.
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