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\"\"
\nStolpersteine<\/em> – in memory of a Jewish family who used to live here<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n

Meditation<\/h3>\n

Many times today I will cross over a threshold.
\nI hope I will catch a few of those times.
\nI need to remember that my life is, in fact,
\na continuous series of thresholds:
\nfrom one moment to the next,
\nfrom one thought to the next,
\nfrom one action to the next.<\/p>\n

Help me appreciate how awesome this is.
\nHow many are the chances to be really alive …
\nto be aware of the enormous dimension
\nwe live within.<\/p>\n

On the threshold the entire past
\nand the entire future
\nrush to meet one another.<\/p>\n

They take hold of each other and laugh.
\nThey are so happy to discover themselves
\nin the awareness of a human creature.
\nOn the threshold the present breaks all boundaries.
\nIt is a convergence,
\na fellowship with all time and space.
\nWe find You there.
\nAnd we are found by You there.<\/p>\n

Help me cross into the present moment –
\ninto wonder, into Your face:
\nthat “now-place,” where we all are,
\nunfolding as Your life moment by moment.<\/p>\n

Let me live on the threshold as threshold.<\/p>\n

 
\n~ from Being home<\/a><\/em> by Gunilla Norris, p.14-15<\/p>\n\n

More meditations by Gunilla Norris<\/strong>
\nTable grace<\/a>
\nFull of air<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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