JC reflects on returning to familiar places and explores the idea of thin space—the moment between what has been and what will be. He invites listeners to pause, notice automatic responses, and ground themselves in the present moment where their power lies.
JC: In those moments where you're back to where you've been before, it's really easy to go back to before. In that thin space. The space in between everything that has been and everything that will be. Only in the moment that we're in that we have any actual power.
Well, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope you're doing great. And if you're not, here's your daily reminder that that is a okay as well. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. I'm really glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you and all those things that I just said. Tara, nice to see you. Mafi. Carissa, how are y'? All? Those are all the things that I kind of say every single day here at Cadre today.
Those almost like liturgical things. Ball game. How's it going, my friend? Trying to think what ball game's going on now, Skull. Let's go, Vikings. Let's go. High school football. Let's go. Let's go. All the things. I am in my car on a Sunday morning, which, for about 20 some years, my life. That's where I was on Sunday mornings. I was a church musician up until, well, church musician for a long, long time. And then I retired about a month and a half ago. So every Cadre today on Sundays was right here in a gas station parking lot as I was in commute.
Well, I'm subbing in at a church, at a piano bench this. This morning. So, by golly, I'm back to somewhere I've been before. Back to before. It's. It's something I think every human experiences often. But we may not take the moment to go, huh, I am somewhere where I've been before. Because one of two things happens. Either we jump back into that automated space in our brain. Our medulla oblongata is very, very good at automated, repeated activity. So, like, breathing or beating of heart, or like, oh, I got an itch or blinking of eyes.
We either go back to the, yeah, I've been here before, I've done this. Or we go, ooh, this is a new experience. I've never been here before. I wonder what's going to happen. If you've joined me on Sunday mornings before I talk about this idea of thin space. The space in between everything that has been and everything that will be, between the good and the bad, the light and the dark, the beginnings, the ends. In that thin space. That's where our power is. Like, I can't drink yesterday's cup of coffee.
I can't drink tomorrow's cup of coffee. I can drink today's protein shake. I wish I would have started the protein shakes, they didn't have a cup of coffee. I was like, shoot, it'd be really cool if I could pick up a cup of coffee right now. But do you get the point? So often we go, ah, what was. Hmm? What do we learn from that? Or we go, ooh, what will be? And we dream and we get hyper aspirational about how things are going to turn out. Yet it's only in the moment that we're in that we have any actual power.
So if you are experiencing. I'm even going to reframe that. The next time you're experiencing a going back to somewhere you've been before, I invite you to take a pause and not go into automated movement like, I've been here. I've done that. I invite you not to go into the, oh, I wonder what's going to happen. Because you have been there. You will have some familiarity, some confidence, some clarity. I invite you, just like I am right now, sitting in my car in a gas station parking lot on a Sunday morning, which I've done for 25 years, but I haven't done it in a couple of months.
I invite you to go, huh? What is there right now? I'm in a different car. It's chilly outside. Last time I was here, there were leaves on the trees. Last time I was here, I'm sure I was feeling different. I don't remember. You know what? I may be here again, but I may not be. So rather than going, huh, where is this all going to lead to? And rather than this going to who I remember when I've been here before, I'm going to take time to go, so, what's going on right now? And I invite you to do the same thing.
Because in those moments where you're back to where you've been before, it's really easy to go, huh, been here? Or huh, I've never been here. That sends you back. It sends you forward. As opposed to going, I am here. Be there, because you don't got a choice. Have a good one.
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