Day 39- Be Bored

Today, DSTSS recommends that you take time to be bored. What starts as boredom will eventually give you feelings of peace. My favorite quote from this chapter is, "People are no longer human beings. We should be called human doings."

Relating this back to religion, I think of monks meditating and the practice of yoga. Both require being still and in the moment and can leave you feeling peaceful.

1 Timothy 4:16′s Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

Psalm 1:1-2: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

I personally think that although boredom isn't synonymous with mediation, we can make a conscious effort to be bored - like Carlson says- and find inner peace once we adjust to doing nothing. This peace can become meditation. Cleanse the mind. Fill it with space and nothingness. Help us to find contentment in the moment. Focus on our breathing. Hear the sound of an exhale and realize how temple-like our body truly is. Be thankful for it. It is God's creation and our gift. Thanks be to God.

Amen.

-I pray that I can begin to make a conscious effort to be bored. That during my boredom I may find inner peace. Amen.