“Hi, Theresa!”
“Hi!”
“How are you today?”
“Hello?”
“Can you hear me?”
“Hello, can you hear me?”
“Yes, we can hear you.”
“Yes, I can hear you.”
“How are you?”
Silence.
Over the last several months, due to limited electricity in Zambia affecting internet connections, it has been a challenge to talk with Theresa. Sometimes we connect for a handful of minutes, sometimes not at all.
Yet each week, we show up, with patience and willingness, hopeful that this week it will work. And when it does, we light up inside so excited to hear Theresa’s voice. And when it doesn’t, we say, “Well, let’s try again next week!”
I’m so grateful for having learned this orientation through being a steward in this Practice. It would be easy to feel defeated, to give up, to be irritated, to not even bother. But nope, not in our Practice! Our commitment to this Practice and to this community gives us the opportunity to show up—without attachment to the outcome—providing an opportunity to cultivate conscious, compassionate Awareness.
And in the realm of good news, solar panels are being installed at the property and Theresa’s house. This should help make our connections more reliable in the future!
Gasshō,
Sreedevi
