Week 30 - Expectations vs Expectancy
- Shirley Riga
- Apr 5
- 1 min read
Saturday, April 5th is a pivotal day because it is a day of protest. Silence has often been a part of protest. Today holds expectations, anticipations, frustrations, worries.
The practice of silence helps people become more mindful and able to connect to themselves and others. I remind myself often of the difference between expectations and expectancy. Holding expectations ladens me with images and outcomes I have already figured out. Whereas expectancy holds the space where I discover the possibilities as they bloom as I hold the space. What the Universe is capable of is amazing; what my brain is capable of is limiting.
Poem by Julia Fehrenbacher
Go gently today, don't hurry or think about the next thing.
Walk with the quiet trees, can you believe how brave they are—how kind?
Model your life after theirs.
Blow kisses at yourself in the mirror
especially when you think you've messed up.
Forgive yourself for not meeting your unreasonable expectations.
You are human, not God—don't be so arrogant.
Praise fresh air, clean water, good dogs.
Spin something from joy.
Open a window, even if it's cold outside.
Sit. Close your eyes. Breathe.
Allow the river of it all to pulse through eyelashes,
fingertips, bare toes.
Breathe in breathe out.
Breathe until you feel your bigness,
until the sun rises in your veins.
Breathe until you stop needing anything to be different.
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