Coach as Instrument: Having Faith

This Week's Attunement 

What's Keeping Me Current
 So that I have a better understanding of my client's context 

I've been renting rooms and homes in Kyiv, Ukraine on Airbnb over the past couple of weeks, simply to support real people on the ground in the middle of a war. The Ukrainians getting the money are so grateful.

Airbnb is making remarkable efforts to support and house Ukrainians refugees. Learn more here.

What's Inspiring Me
So I can continue to do what I do and inspire my clients as well

"I want to write about faith, about the way the moon rises over cold snow, night after night, faithful even as it fades from fullness, slowly becoming that last curving and impossible sliver of light before the final darkness. But I have no faith myself. I refuse it even the smallest entry. Let this then, my small poem, like a new moon, slender and barely open, be the first prayer that opens me to faith."
— David Whyte (Click here to listen to David reading his poem)

I've been feeling somewhat untethered lately with all that is happening in the world and I got a brief respite on my run this weekend. I run by a hospital on my usual weekend loop and the streets surrounding the hospital are lined with tall hickory, oak and maple trees.  As I pass the trees, I'll often stop and place my hands on the trees and thank them for providing the oxygen that most many of the patients in the hospital desperately need. This weekend, as I was passing the trees, I stopped just in front of a cherry blossom tree in peek bloom and a thought came to me like a gift, "Everything is as it should be, including me."

That gifted belief grounded me, relaxing all the parts of me that were feeling a need to do something, change something, remember not to forget something. I can only explain this belief as a deep faith that somehow, someway, life is playing out as it will. And my faith in that lets me stop pushing against what is and relax into the enoughness of myself and the present moment.

I'm grateful for this faith that invites me to be present with life. Because sometimes, we can not change what's happening. And having faith can support us in being with each other and what is.