{"id":1106,"date":"2018-11-29T22:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T03:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2018-11-29T22:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T03:32:41","slug":"scrappy-and-spiritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/scrappy-and-spiritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrappy and Spiritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mentors, friends – even heroes and heroines – challenge me to nurture spiritual discipline by their example. They have deep spiritual practices. Their prayers, unlike mine, are not spewed while driving in rush hour traffic \u00a0on I-285. \u00a0Nor is their language coarse and ribald.<\/p>\n

Like my mom, many rise in the morning and spend time with scripture and in prayer. They journal. They draw on and into a deep peace. They center.<\/p>\n

Well, I center, too but somehow it looks really messy. Today I unleashed a barrage of foul language and beat my steering wheel in frustration while merging onto the highway. The driver’s utter disregard for the rules of traffic as she passed me in the merge lane flew all over me. \u00a0It was only after I lost my cookies that I told myself to take a breath and center. And then these thoughts occurred to me:
\n– I couldn’t be that angry with her, what was I really<\/em> mad about? (I figured out it was reflexive and I needed to chill)
\n– What was happening in her life that gave her that sense of urgency?
\n– What if I just let go and loved her?<\/p>\n

I ended up being my best self. By Godde. Sometimes I wonder what would it be like if I weren’t a scrappy, earthy, unleashed woman. I don’t mind that I cuss like a sailor (though it drove my mom nuts). I agonize that I am undisciplined. \u00a0I sometimes wonder if I am spiritual enough. I always ask if I could do better.<\/p>\n

The truth is I can do better. That’s the thing about being spiritually engaged. We don’t really arrive anywhere, we just ‘be’ more deeply ourselves and ‘be’ more deeply with Godde. At the same time I am enough. And you are enough. It’s okay to be imperfect. Any relationship, even – or especially – our relationship with Godde takes time and attention. It \u00a0can look different for different people. And while I remain deeply grateful for those who pray, meditate, and center on Godde in a more disciplined way, while I will always \u00a0learn from them, be inspired, and even convicted by them, \u00a0in my better times I know that how I pray and meditate and center is good, too. It only takes doing.<\/p>\n

Find your way.
\nEmbrace it.
\nPractice it
\nKeep getting better at it.
\nBe intentional.
\nBe yourself.
\nBe enough.<\/p>\n

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Mentors, friends – even heroes and heroines – challenge me to nurture spiritual discipline by their example. They have deep spiritual practices. Their prayers, unlike mine, are not spewed while driving in rush hour traffic \u00a0on I-285. \u00a0Nor is their language coarse and ribald. Like my mom, many rise in the morning and spend time … Continue reading Scrappy and Spiritual<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,13,8,21,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}