just wind

The expectation that this moment should in some way be different than what it is, that this person with me should in some way be other than who they are, that I should somehow be other than who I am, can cause great and unnecessary suffering. Contrary to what we so often teach in the church and in our society, such expectations are not what drive us toward meaningful change and transformation. Such expectations, instead, may inhibit our transformation for the way they feed impatience, resistance, and defensiveness. Perhaps even the notion of transformation can be misleading because it can easily imply that what is right here, right now, is not okay, is not right, is fundamentally not acceptable. Can we continue on a path of transformation and discovery if we cannot accept the beginning point of that path?


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Wind, from northern sky,
presses, pushes, passes through.
Now, there's just wind.