Begin again

2nd CPE unit commences in January.  I confess to missing this work - this despite being up to my eyeballs in finding my way in a new job.  But the lesson of that new job, of the year's challenges to my health, family, and sanity - is that everything is chaplaincy.  That is, everything comes down to the single instances of presence and connection.  Connection with others.  Connection with that which lies quiet beneath the "self".   Each moment is complete in itself.  Though looking back on the year, I see the habit of trying to see them as a continuous whole - stringing each together - as bright as dew drops on the thin strands of Indra's net - and a construct as impermanent.  And I note - the drops are many.  It was a good year.