The Practice of Enough

The Practice of Enough This week, choose one thing you will stop. Not forever. Just for a day — or even an afternoon. Something you normally do out of obligation, habit, or the quiet anxiety that if you stop, something will fall apart. And in that stopping, pay attention. Notice what comes up. The restlessness. The guilt. The slow settling that eventually follows.

Brother Lawrence discovered that God is just as present in stillness as in the noise and clutter of the kitchen. Sor Juana wrote that the soul released from its long labor of proving and achieving finds itself suddenly capable of a simple, still attention to the one it loves. Give yourself permission to find out if that is true. If you want to go deeper — sometime this week, sit with Psalm 23. Not as a reading. As a prayer. Let each line land slowly. He makes me lie down. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.

Notice what it feels like to be led rather than driven. That is the gift of enough. Receive it.