mystery

Friday, January 28, 2022

No one knows your path but you. The mystery belongs to you only, unveiled by you in pieces through time, through the span of your life. Your way is innate. Your navigation is inside-out. -Jennifer Rose

@SeeTheRoses

JANUARY 28, 1986

We Interrupt This Broadcast

The Challenger 7

“Obviously a major malfunction…”

“Today is a day for mourning and remembering.” -Ronald Reagan

[Image: history.com]

The Space Shuttle Challenger flew nine missions into space. But its fateful tenth mission, which lasted only 73 seconds, ensured its tragic place in history. On the morning of January 28, 1986, a crew of seven boarded the Challenger, including a New Hampshire grade school teacher named Christa McAuliffe, representing the aspirations of so-called ‘ordinary’ citizens to journey into space. It was an adventure vicariously shared by millions of Americans through television, as the Challenger lifted off at 11:38a.m. from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and hurtled majestically into the sky. But less than two minutes later, horror struck in full view of all who watched.

Contributors:
John Zarrella, former CNN Miami Bureau Chief
Tony Clark, former national correspondent for CNN
Beth O’Connell, former coordinator for the NBC Boston Bureau
William Harwood, CBS News space analyst
Steve Nesbitt, the voice of NASA Mission Control

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-challenger-disaster/id1573079095?i=1000544825817

“From six-time New York Times bestselling author Joe Garner, and based on his groundbreaking multimedia book, “We Interrupt This Broadcast,” comes a 12-episode, audio docu-series hosted by broadcast legend Bill Kurtis, and narrated by NBC’s Brian Williams. Each episode unfolds with the brisk pace and tone of a thriller while presenting an in-depth look into the reporting of, and reaction to, the extraordinary events that became the benchmarks of the American story. It is said that “breaking news” is the first draft of history. “We Interrupt This Broadcast” marks the first time the stories of these historical broadcast news events are told exclusively by the broadcasters and TV journalists whose work created those drafts in real-time.

Hosted by Bill Kurtis & Narrated by Brian Williams.

…and remember.

Never let the fear of this world distract you from the immense beauty, infinite mystery & deep love all around you.

-Jennifer Rose

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Surrender to the Divine unfolding

Surrender to the Divine surrounding

Surrender & observe

Surrender

-ishvara pranidhana

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“You are in the time of the interim 
Where everything seems withheld. 
 The path you took to get here has washed out. 
 The way forward is still concealed from you. 
 The old is not old enough to have died away. 
 The new is still too young to be born.”  

-John O’Donohue

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“To know anything fully is always to hold that part of it which is still mysterious and unknowable.” -Fr Richard Rohr

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What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance?

These things are what form the ground of waiting. And if you look carefully, you’ll see that they’re also the seedbed of creativity and growth—what allows us to do the daring and to break through to newness. . . .

Creativity flourishes not in certainty but in questions. Growth germinates not in tent dwelling but in upheaval. Yet the seduction is always security rather than venturing, instant knowing rather than deliberate waiting.

-Sue Monk Kidd

When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions 

Read aloud.

Starlight. Ancient, starlight.

Hope is the main impulse of life. —Ilia Delio

Mystical hope. -Cynthia Bourgeault

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Language of the Cosmos

“What does it mean to be a cosmic being, a creature of divine light and welcoming darkness, an integral part of a universe that is rife with mystery and potential?”

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Dr. Barbara Holmes—my co-teacher at the Living School—has revised her incredible book Race and the Cosmos. She suggests the language of cosmology could improve on older ways of thinking and talking about race and ethnicity. The trailer is a wonderful presentation of this idea.

-Fr Richard Rohr, Center for Action & Contemplation

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Gaia.

‘If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what he is?

-Mahatma Gandhi

‘The necklace of your life…’

Breath deeply and try to see each, not as a failure, but as a shimmering bead on a necklace your life is making.

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‘When things don’t work out – – -when loves unexpectedly end or careers stop unfolding – – it can be painful and sad, but refusing this larger picture keeps us form finding our resilience. Then, sadness can turn into discouragement, pain can spoil into despair.

Each person we love and each dream we try to give life to brings us closer to the mystery of being alive.

So, we must try as many times as necessary until our many loves become the one love, and many dreams become the one dream, until heart and path feel the same.’

-Mark Nepo