0:00 Notice the place where your feet meet the floor, and how the morning air feels against your skin right now.0:14 Good morning, baby.0:17 Yesterday we reminded ourselves that you don't have to carry it all before breakfast.0:29 Today, well, we're going a step deeper onto this quiet porch.0:37 Out here, the dawn is just barely graying over the rooftops of South Memphis, and the kettle hasn't even whistled yet.0:54 You arrived here into this minute, and that is plenty.1:01 Let your chest soften and fill with air, nice and easy.1:09 Draw that breath all the way down, deep into your belly.1:17 Let it out slow.1:19 That's it.1:20 No hurry in it at all.1:23 Inhale again, welcoming whatever cool breeze is finding you.1:32 And exhale, letting the breath fall away like water off the eave.1:41 You've spent soooo much time pushing and planning, but breathing doesn't ask for your resume.1:54 It just comes.1:56 It just gives.1:58 In through your nose, cool and quiet.2:03 Out through your mouth, warm and finished.2:09 Mm-hm.2:10 That breath is a gift somebody left on your step.2:16 Now, bring your attention down to where your body makes contact with whatever is holding you up.2:30 Feel the weight of your heels, resting heavy and still against the floorboards.2:41 Let your ankles loosen their grip.2:45 Move up through your knees, letting the big muscles in your thighs completely unclamp.2:57 They've been walking you through so many rooms, working so hard to keep you upright.3:09 Tell them they can lay down their tools for a second.3:17 Notice your lower back, where we tend to tuck away all those unsaid words and deadlines.3:29 Feel your spine settling back, leaning into the chair, supported without you having to lift a finger.3:43 Now bring your eyes to your shoulders.3:48 Drop them.3:50 Let them fall two inches away from your ears.3:56 Unclench your hands where they rest in your lap.4:02 Let the palms curl open, empty, holding NOTHING at all.4:10 Softening your jaw, letting your tongue drop away from the roof of your mouth.4:21 Smooth the skin across your forehead.4:26 Your whole body, just resting in its own skin.4:33 Look at how much of your day gets spent trying to earn your place in the room.4:43 Trying to prove you're useful, or capable, or worthy of the ground you stand on.4:55 Oh, honey, you don't have to rehearse for life while you're sitting here.5:05 You're not a choir anthem that needs twenty rehearsals before Sunday morning.5:15 You're the person sitting in the pew, and that is ENOUGH.5:23 Mm-hm.5:24 Sit with that a minute, baby.5:28 Beneath all that noise in your head about what got done and what got left behind, there's a steady, quiet river running.5:45 It doesn't ask you to make a splash.5:50 It just hums.5:52 Rest in that quiet.5:54 Nothing to build.5:57 Nothing to fix.5:59 Just your heart beating, faithful and steady, without you having to tell it to.6:10 You are here.6:12 You belong here.6:14 Start to feel the cool edge of the air on your fingertips again.6:23 Hear the far-off sound of the morning waking up down the street.6:32 You don't have to leap up and rush out the door.6:38 Just take this small, soft thought into whatever room you walk into next: Your presence is the work.6:52 Being who you are, steady and kind, is already the blessing.7:01 Go on, now, and let the day meet you kind.
