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A Year of Contemplation

Accepting What Is (Day 305)

11/1/2019

 
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Let’s say that something happens you DIDN’T want to happen. 

Magic(k) can’t turn back time and give you a do-over. Wishing won’t make it disappear either. Science cannot (yet, perhaps) create a portal back in time. Maybe we can “reframe” things, or create a new narrative so we can believe it to be something it’s not. Best not do that, though… sounds like the potential for self-delusion could be pretty high. 

So… whatever it was that just happened that you didn’t want to happen has indeed happened. 

Can’t change it. 

It is what it is. 

I say: GOOD! 

Why good? Because it’s the “You Are Here” spot on the life-map. See, without knowing where you are, you won’t know how to get to where you want to go. 

Even if we planned for something to be different than what’s happening, that doesn’t matter…

… because IT IS WHAT IT IS! 

Start there. If you like it, stay there. If you don’t, move to where you want to be. 

(See y’all tomorrow) 

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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