A Year of Wayfinding - We're Just Gettiing Started
Seek and find.
It's officially been a year since I started sending out a weekly observation, reflection, and invitation to practice finding your next right, soul-honoring step when none of your old maps are working. Meaning, purpose, and joy were the markers of right steps when we started, and I don't plan on giving up anytime soon.
The landscape has changed and is ever-evolving. I began writing the Wayfinder's Weekly to share where I was finding sustenance on a journey outside of religious institutional life, or at least on the edges of it.
Now I find my senses being opened, not just for directional need outside of institutional spirituality, but as we trod through late stage capitalism, an environmental crisis, and an ever-widening gap of understanding among neighbors--we long for rest, ease, and grace.
What in your life is restful? Where do you not even have to look anymore to find "The Easy Button"? What is showing up to remind you of your belovedness, that nothing you do is going to make your inherent value increase or decrease?
Take a small inventory of these things, even if it's something as simple as:
a dog's full-body flop onto the floor, all four legs splayed, zero vigilance left in the system;
the muscle memory your body knows as the route home, the way you tie your shoes, the way your hands know the steering wheel
someone remembering a small detail about you that you'd forgotten you mentioned
Where are rest, ease, and grace your faithful companions?
I'm scavenging for these too, my friend. Reply to this email and tell me what comes to your mind! The more we share where sustenance is, the more strongly our bodies are attuned to its presence all around us.
Making this way with you,
Elaine
P.S. I'm opening up a couple of special spots this summer for 1:1 wayfinding clients - 3 sessions for $450. If this is you, just reply or pass the word on to whoever it is.
This reflection is part of Wayfinder's Weekly, my free Monday newsletter for people navigating threshold seasons. Subscribe here
