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I'll tell you, this is a tough time of year to try to fit in a day of spirituality. Or a day to write about a day of spirituality. It's a tough time of year to try to take a shower. (Yeah, I showered on Saturday. You got a problem with that? It's not like you all can see or smell me. And I'm courteous enough to do my shopping online too.)
When I started my spiritual experiment of setting one day a week aside as a personal Sabbath, I set up some rules for myself, which included things like not eating sugar and not using the computer. This week, I had to choose between sticking to the letter of the rules (but not meeting some of my holiday commitments) and (ahem!) bending the rules a bit.
In the end, I went with the bending and decided to focus on mindfulness. I took things slowly. I tried to pay attention. Before I took action (especially if that action was, like using the computer, on my verboten list), I would pause and breathe and pray about it. It led me to choose not to drink soda (although I tried to talk myself I'd never make it through the day without it) but to choose to use the computer to access some information about Christmas gifts (rather than employ an elaborate and vastly more time consuming work around). It wasn't quite a day of rest, but it wasn't a day of insane, frenetic holiday preparation either.
Unfortunately, now I am in full frenetic holiday mode, complete with house guests, which is why this post is going up later than usual. I'll be around here a bit more before the end of the year, but come January, my focus is totally going to be sleep!
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