I so love this. A book I think of in connection to the holy everyday is Joy is My Justice by Tanmeet Sethi. I subscribed to your thoughtful blog despite single parenting a young child being years in the rear-view, because many moments from those times feel immediate and vibrant across time. Like my small altar with Buddha figure and ancestor photos where one day I was surprised to find her binky placed in the Buddha's lap...she was sharing something comforting and important to her just as I did.
Oh my heart. What a profoundly touching and precious moment, Erin. It's exactly this, isn't it?? These are the things that just make it all worthwhile. What a gift it is to hear that these moments still stay vibrant across time. Thank you for being here <3
Mmm, this was everything I needed to read. I write about the magic in the mundane of this motherhood life, but the holy everyday feels even more sacred to me these days because it truly is holy work we get to do, raising these little ones. It's so easy to get caught up in the complaining of it all, especially when we see the 'real' aspects online everywhere, but my god the power of being in this moment in life is miraculous. I am currently waiting for my 21-month-old to decide to talk (she's taken her time doing literally everything, so I'm not surprised talking is no different) and reading your words about your daughter's vocabulary made me tear up to think about hearing those words come out of my own daughter's mouth soon enough. I can't wait for it, but I also can because this moment is special too.
Thank you for sharing these beautiful insights, I am so touched by it all. Xx
This made me cry. I love your reminder that miracles need to be witnessed. I don't have any children but am so grateful to hear about the unsurpassable challenges and the miracles that rain down. And your line about each miracle needing to be witnessed in order to be a miracle, I think I hear something essential to my spirituality. I consider myself someone who's spirituality is practicing earth reverence and sometimes I wonder if I need to do more rituals or find a named community to make that real. But the heart of my practice is like your daughter: looking up at a tree moving in the wind and thinking, wow. And I believe we all do this, naturally. I think making space to be witnesses to the miracles of living on earth is the silent heart of earth-based spirituality, and it's accessible to us all, and making space to share our troubles with others makes it more possible to do.
I'm very much with you on this. I truly believe that just learning how to be witnesses again (and letting go of needing the complex ritual, the rigid ceremony, the doing) is one of the biggest gifts we can give the Earth. Thank you for the miracles you're creating by doing this.
"Everyday holiness" is an interesting concept and akin to me to the beauty in an ordinary day. Also "feeling silly about our domestic joy" - I hadn't even realised I felt this way until you articulated it so clearly (and I don't even have children, so I don't feel as 'entitled' to domestic joy as mothers do). Thank you for sharing this, it's given me a lot to think about.
I so love this. A book I think of in connection to the holy everyday is Joy is My Justice by Tanmeet Sethi. I subscribed to your thoughtful blog despite single parenting a young child being years in the rear-view, because many moments from those times feel immediate and vibrant across time. Like my small altar with Buddha figure and ancestor photos where one day I was surprised to find her binky placed in the Buddha's lap...she was sharing something comforting and important to her just as I did.
Oh my heart. What a profoundly touching and precious moment, Erin. It's exactly this, isn't it?? These are the things that just make it all worthwhile. What a gift it is to hear that these moments still stay vibrant across time. Thank you for being here <3
Mmm, this was everything I needed to read. I write about the magic in the mundane of this motherhood life, but the holy everyday feels even more sacred to me these days because it truly is holy work we get to do, raising these little ones. It's so easy to get caught up in the complaining of it all, especially when we see the 'real' aspects online everywhere, but my god the power of being in this moment in life is miraculous. I am currently waiting for my 21-month-old to decide to talk (she's taken her time doing literally everything, so I'm not surprised talking is no different) and reading your words about your daughter's vocabulary made me tear up to think about hearing those words come out of my own daughter's mouth soon enough. I can't wait for it, but I also can because this moment is special too.
Thank you for sharing these beautiful insights, I am so touched by it all. Xx
This made me cry. I love your reminder that miracles need to be witnessed. I don't have any children but am so grateful to hear about the unsurpassable challenges and the miracles that rain down. And your line about each miracle needing to be witnessed in order to be a miracle, I think I hear something essential to my spirituality. I consider myself someone who's spirituality is practicing earth reverence and sometimes I wonder if I need to do more rituals or find a named community to make that real. But the heart of my practice is like your daughter: looking up at a tree moving in the wind and thinking, wow. And I believe we all do this, naturally. I think making space to be witnesses to the miracles of living on earth is the silent heart of earth-based spirituality, and it's accessible to us all, and making space to share our troubles with others makes it more possible to do.
I'm very much with you on this. I truly believe that just learning how to be witnesses again (and letting go of needing the complex ritual, the rigid ceremony, the doing) is one of the biggest gifts we can give the Earth. Thank you for the miracles you're creating by doing this.
"Everyday holiness" is an interesting concept and akin to me to the beauty in an ordinary day. Also "feeling silly about our domestic joy" - I hadn't even realised I felt this way until you articulated it so clearly (and I don't even have children, so I don't feel as 'entitled' to domestic joy as mothers do). Thank you for sharing this, it's given me a lot to think about.