Slipping into non-relational thinking is natural and human, since we live in a busy world where there are practical things to do, things that you have to check off. Not always the most exciting things either. But I do, when I find myself slipping into autopilot, when I find myself slipping into non-relational thinking, I try to remind myself of fountain fullness.
And sometimes simply turning on the faucet in the bathroom can remind me of the fountain or listening to the rain or giving my children a bath. As Thomas Merton wrote, “Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.”
—from Franciscan Media’s Off the Page
with host Stephen Copeland, featuring Wm. Paul Young
