Writings of Recovery

Simplicity

Writing prompt: Gratitude in the day to day. The miracles in the simplicity of the mundane.

When I started pondering this prompt, my brain (whom I lovingly call ‘Myrna’) went to all of the things I still needed to do in order to have simplicity in my life. Until then, I would not be able to experience the miracles of the simplicity in the mundane.

I needed to declutter my life. To declutter my home of the items that no longer served me. The clothes I no longer wear. The expired makeup. The items I might need someday yet haven’t needed them for over ten years.

To declutter my head of the thoughts, opinions, and beliefs that no longer served me. The pattern of self-sabotage. The belief that my voice mattered less than others. The thought that I can do this on my own.

Then Higher Power says, ‘Sit. Just sit. Sit with Me and Be. 

Just be.

Just be here.

Just be here now.

Simple.

Simple, but not easy.

I am not being asked to do. I am being asked to just be.

I can do ‘doing’ well. ‘Being’ is another story. I don’t know how to ‘be’ well. I spent so much time trying to figure out who others wanted me to ‘be’ and that kept me in the ‘doing’ mode.

Higher Power gently reminds me….

Just be.

Just be here.

Just be here now.

In these beautiful, blessed moments (that I recognize are too far apart and too short in duration)…yet still, my heart swells over the realization that I have had this experience and I can have it any time.

In these moments, when all of me is aligned with all of HP, it all makes sense. I make sense. This is the miracle in the simplicity in the mundane. The simple, but not easy, discipline of just sitting and being, here, now.

And I am grateful.