Finding Inspiration...

The Sunday Weekly

This week’s reading and reflection is be fluent in the language of your heart from beloved. you’re enough. by adrian michael.

I’ve been watching a lot of tennis these past few weeks. I don’t play (yet) but I have enjoyed watching it as a sport for a long time. There’s something incredibly relaxing about the gentle rhythmic, or maybe not so gentle but definitely rhythmic, passing of the ball across the net. I was fortunate to get tickets for centre court at Wimbledon a few years ago and sat through three intense singles matches. I was particularly struck by noticing the constant glances from player to coaches. How what had seemed like a solo endeavour became instantly obvious to be a team, the player merely the front. It reminded me of sobriety. We might consider ourselves to be alone facing our opponents (i.e. life) but we actually have a team with us. They may not be there on the court but they are on the sidelines, in the background, they have a stake in the game.

Sobriety can often feel like isolation. We imagine ourselves suddenly cut off from the rest of the world, we perceive that we are outsiders, no longer part of normal society. In some ways this is true. We have taken a stance, we are separating ourselves from what has become our normal. It doesn’t mean that we are alone.