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Marc Trudeau LikeBreathin.com Mobile 774-641-8302 Begin forwarded message: From: Center for Action and Contemplation <[email protected]> Date: May 2, 2023 at 2:06:38 AM EDT To: "Marc C. Trudeau" <[email protected]> Subject: Richard Rohr Daily Meditation: Embracing Change Reply-To: [email protected] There comes a time when the things that were good and right in the past must be left behind. No images? Click here<https://email.cac.org/t/d-e-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-f/> Tuesday, May 2, 2023 Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation From the Center for Action and Contemplation [The image on the left shows red, orange and gray watercolors, messy and splattered. The image in the center shows a green line crashing into a blue line. The image on the right shows a glimpse of blue and black watercolors.]<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-r/> Week Eighteen: Transitions Embracing Change Image credit: A path from one week to the next—McEl Chevrier, Untitled. CAC staff, Exercise in Grief and Lamentation. Jessie Jones, Untitled. Used with permission. Click here to enlarge image<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-y/>. On retreat, the CAC staff used watercolors to connect to our collective grief. This is one of the watercolor paintings that came from that exercise. Story From Our Community During my pregnancy, I looked forward to reading the Daily Meditations each morning—they were great company.… Being pregnant, I felt a kind of double liminality: awaiting new life, and also witnessing the world transitioning from an old order to a new consciousness. My 17-hour non-medicated labor was intensely painful. During the last hour of birth, I actually doubted that there was a child inside me. Finally, my son swam beautifully in the water just like a little fish and into my arms, pink and healthy. I fear our world is also going through this painful transition through the narrow birth canal where the false self doesn’t have much space to move. I wonder if our world is ready for that labor. I wonder if we’re ready of what comes after birth, too: remaining vigilant, patient, compassionate, and loving as we welcome a fragile new order and care for it like a new infant. —Ashley M. Share your own story with us.<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-h/> JOIN NOW<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-k/> Was this email forwarded to you? Subscribe now to the Daily Meditations. [CAC 35th Anniversary Logo]<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-u/> [Facebook]<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-o/>[Twitter]<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-b/>[YouTube]<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-n/>[Instagram]<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-p/> Sign-up for the monthly newsletter<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-x/> from the Center for Action and Contemplation for the latest news about our programs, including new books, podcasts, events, and online learning opportunities. The work of the Center for Action and Contemplation is possible only because of people like you! Learn more about how you can help support this work<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-m/>. If you would like to change how you receive these emails you can update your preferences<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-c/> or unsubscribe<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-q/> from our list. [http://i4.cmail19.com//static/eb/beta/13-the-blueprint-3/images/[email protected]] Forward <https://centerforactionandcontemplation.forwardtomyfriend.com/d-tlkrhhkhkl-AD36D7E5-zujclk-l-s> © 2023 | Center for Action and Contemplation 1705 Five Points Road SW Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA 87105 Privacy Policy<https://email.cac.org/t/d-l-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-a/> Unsubscribe<https://email.cac.org/t/d-u-zujclk-tlkrhhkhkl-g/>
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