Occasionally The Sacred Braid will feature a Life-Line for the day or the coming week. As I am offering it, a Life-line is meant to point the way, to guide us to safety, to deliver food that nourishes us, or to keep us tethered to reality. A life-line has the capacity to enliven us or awaken us to what matters most. It might break us open or move us deeply or make us laugh or cry. Some days the line might challenge or indict us or give us pause. Other days a Life-line might not be all bells and whistles yet might comfort us, give us hope, make us feel less alone, or simply confirm something we already know. Come back to the Life-line throughout the week. Let it serve the purpose it has been mysteriously given to serve.

Today’s Life-line is:
“Abba Poemen said about Abbot Pior, that every single day he made a fresh beginning.”