I am reading a lovely book at the moment called an Altar in the world by Barbara Brown Taylor. I have been really interested in a chapter she calls 'Walking the earth" where she advocates the power of simply walking and thinking about how we walk. Really paying attention as opposed to having our cell phone at our ear, our earphones in our ear or our head down and our mind entrenched in its own worries.
As someone who walks several times a week this really made an impression.
She talks about the history of spiritual practices of walking and considers how much Jesus walked in his ministry and reminds us that it doesn't matter where or how far we walk it is giving your full attention to the walk - seeing, listening, smelling .
"Consider the lilies of the fields, Jesus said but we don't consider them , not usually and what else do we miss on our rush from here to there?"
I will think about all of this when I next walk Macy ( although I might leave out the bit about bare feet).
" Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?" Luke 12 vs 27-40
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