NTI

Shalom. Things that have been in my mind this week: the idea of “going around the block for the extra 1%”. Going the extra mile. Choosing the harder path, even if your effort will not be recognised. Better still, choosing the harder path for the benefit of others, even if it makes you look “weak”. How overfamiliar I have become with the easy way out. How knowledge of doing the right thing isn’t enough. How thinking about doing something isn’t actually doing the thing itself, as valuable as our thought experiments are. How costly it is to push beyond our comfort zones, to sacrifice our time, to do what we believe to be the most loving thing in the present moment. How full of distractions and numbing agents our lives are. How sobering it is to realise how fragile our bodies and minds can be, and yet how resilient they can become with intention. How the privilege of never going without or never having to sacrifice can rob us of seeing how desperate life can be for those around us. We all have something someone else is in need of, despite how “little” we have. How simply showing up can be the answer to someone’s prayers.