Morning Invocation

Today, I do hard things with courage.

Today, I do hard things with courage.

I show up to the moments that I don't want to show up to.

I send that text back, I stop, and I make eye contact even when I want to look away.

I have hard conversations, and I show up to this life with courage.

I remind myself that I can sit in moments of discomfort and that I can face moments that seem nearly impossible when I access my courage.

Today, I do hard things with courage.

I look at the things I've been putting off because I didn't have the courage yesterday, and today I do them.

I look at them straight in the eye, and I do not avoid them, or escape them, but I face hard things with courage.

I can look back on the last months or years of my life and ask myself, what have I been avoiding?

What hard things could I actually turn toward today?

In thought, in deed, in action, in my spiritual life, in my emotional life, and in my relational life, what have I been avoiding?

What could I turn toward today?

Today, I remind myself that I do have courage.

Today, I remind myself that I do have the courage and that I can do hard things, and I turn towards them again and again.

*Image by Judy Chicago