Does your life fit like a glove? Today we offer this beautiful photo and a few questions to ponder. We hope this moment of Courage & Renewal brightens your day.
Outside the retreat-center kitchen hung dozens of garden work gloves. Some were small, bright, and colorful and others hefty, well-worn, and gray. All of them had been put to good use over time and towards a common purpose. They all hung there — hung in there — together.
At Courage & Renewal, we use “third things” — images, stories, poems, music, objects — as metaphors for reflection. At a recent retreat in New York facilitated by Eric Baylin and Ann Myers, this display of gloves became an impromptu third thing about community.
Come with us on a mini-retreat for a moment. Print out this image or zoom in on it here. Write about it, if you’d like. Then share the photo with someone and have a conversation.
- What do you see in this photograph?
- What do these work gloves say to you about your life today, where you are or where you’d like to be?
- Where does your life fit like a glove? Where does it not?
Share your reflections at Facebook page or our blog!
Warmly,
Terry Chadsey, Executive Director
P.S.
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