Over the next few weeks I will be focusing on a word of the day drawn from a list created at the beginning of January. Each word was chosen to serve as a guide to inspire and inform my steps through 2020. If you are just joining me now and want to look in on earlier posts on this topic, you will find links to each at the end.

RHYTHM

We are hardwired for rhythm.

From our earliest formation we are bathed in the rhythm of our mother’s heartbeat. We arrive in a world where the sun rises and sets, the tide flows in and recedes, and our lungs fill and empty again and again and again.

Rhythm, however must not be confused with routine. Our morning cup of coffee, workout at the gym, regular bedtime, and always putting our car keys in the same place (purely aspirational example) can equip us to live in rhythm with our lives. But. They are not the rhythm.

To live in rhythm means to relinquish our grip on how things should be, and engage with them as they are.

To live in rhythm means to work for what matters, not against what doesn’t.

To live in rhythm is to be response to, not reactive against, the truth of our lives.

To live in rhythm is to go with the flow rather than swim against the tide.