The Winding Road

Dear Friends,

Last week I had the privilege of spending a spectacular week leading a retreat on Amorgos, a beautiful little island with a population of 2000 full-time residents, and 370 churches dotting the landscape, in the Cyclades in Greece.

Throughout the week we went on various adventures on our little island, we visited a beautiful monastery, Panagia Hozoviotissa, dramatically built into a cliffside, we visited the adorable town of Chora, went on a stunning hike, explored the town of Tholaria up the hill from our hotel, learned some greek dances and culinary skills…all the while, as we adventured, I was noticing the roads on our little island.

The roads on our little island home for the week were built into the landscape.  Instead of barreling through the landscape, they followed the curves and the altitude…which made for some really curvy, steep roads and a slower trip to get where we were going…it also made for roads that practically disappeared into the landscape around them.  Instead of fighting the landscape they had and blasting through it, the Amorgans worked with what they had to build transportation infrastructure.

I was thinking about those roads in terms of our own bodies.  Sometimes we get frustrated with what we have…maybe our age, our old or new injuries, our weight, the way our bodies work…all those things sometimes frustrate us, and we end up getting in our heads about it.  But I wonder how it might feel if we simply accept ourselves exactly as we are, right here and now, and then work with what we’ve got.  I wonder how it might feel to judge ourselves a little less, to find beauty in ourselves, to work on knowing we are just right just as we are right here, right now.

I hope you have an amazing week, my friend.

Love
Krista