{"id":3005,"date":"2008-08-12T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/08\/meanwhile-over-at-the-anchoress.html"},"modified":"2008-08-12T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T14:50:00","slug":"meanwhile-over-at-the-anchoress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/08\/meanwhile-over-at-the-anchoress.html","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, over at The Anchoress…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…her online retreat<\/a> is going gangbusters, and she’s just posted a heart-stirring meditation<\/a> on energy: <\/p>\n

There are things seen, and unseen. Energy is seen and unseen, and all around us. God is all around us, too – seen amongst us in each other, and unseen, too. Our state of being – our mindset, our peace, our anxiety – it all affects our perception. When we are too encumbered, too much in our heads, too busy \u201cdoing\u201d to simply \u201cbe\u201d\u2026we can miss it.<\/p>\n

Here in this mid-day, let us take a moment to focus and to breathe, and to reacquaint ourselves with what we \u201cknow\u201d amid all we do not know. For all that we can \u201cdo,\u201d we cannot make a flea, or a streak of lightening. When our \u201cdoing\u201d fails, we can remember that a great deal is at work, a great deal of energy is running about us, and \u201cdoing\u201d even as we remain still and quite, allowing ourselves, for a brief time, to simply be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“To simply be.” <\/p>\n

It sounds so easy. But as she reminds us, it may be among the hardest things of all. Visit her blog and check out the rest. You’ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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