Cadre Today- Thin Space

I let time go lightly When I'm here with you I let time go lightly when the day is through I keep a watch on time When I've got work to do I let time go lightly with you Good morning, Chris Fortman. Good morning, everybody. How are we doing on this Sunday? That was a little song by Harry Chapin, the Cats in the Cradle guy, one of my favorites. There's a lot of music that he has that nobody knows. And that's, I think, one of those songs. It's called Let Time Go Lightly. Listen to these lyrics. I let time go lightly When I'm here with you I let time go lightly when the day is through I keep a watch on time when I have work to do But I let time go lightly with you hey, I'm glad that I'm here.

I'm glad that you're here. I know the things I know and I care about you. Every single time someone posts, shares, live, streams, comments. Here in the Cadre sphere, I hope that's what you see. You see people who are glad that they're here, they're glad that you're here. They know some stuff because they've lived some life and they care about you. All of those things go, I'm gonna put something into the Cadre sphere, all with the intent of helping people see that there's lots of different ways, lots of paths that diverge and converge that lead people to feeling better.

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, on Sundays, I talk about this idea of thin space. It's derived by the Franciscans, an order of monks who live in community, in solitude, and in meditation and simplicity. And they have this idea of. Of. Of thin space, or the space between the space between everything that has been and everything that will be. All the good, the bad, the light, the dark, the beginnings, the ends, the days, the nights, the seasons, yada, yada, yada.

And I think on Sunday mornings, when time feels a little bit softer, quite often it's a really good time to find this space. You may go, well, why. Why would I want to find. Find thin space? Why would I want to exist in that. In that middle? Well, it's the one space that you have some power. And that doesn't mean that we don't learn from the past, right? So spend time thinking about and learning from the past. That doesn't mean you don't have influence on the future. Right? You can go ahead and Plan the boots down.

But we know that we can do our best to learn from the past and still get it wrong. We can go ahead and plan for the future and still have the world shift and wiggle and curveball on us. And all of a sudden, all of our plans go to phooey. The one moment that we actually have any power in is right now. So here's a really great exercise. If you've ever been like, well, so how do I do it? Feel free to do this sometime today. Put five minutes on your clock. For the first two minutes, write down everything you can think of from the past, like what you had for lunch yesterday, what movie you saw in 1985 at the Terrace Theater in Robbinsdale.

For the next two minutes, you're gonna wr everything that hasn't happened yet, everything that'll happen after this moment. What are you going to do after you retire? What are you going to have for dinner tomorrow? When do you have to get your next oil change? All those things that will happen after now and then for that last minute. So minute one and two, past minute three and four, future minute five, write down everything that's happening right now. Like, I am scratching my leg with my foot. It is cold.

There is lots of snow on the ground. My water bottle is three, eight full. That's what you write down for the last minute. What you end up noticing is normally people have tons of things to write down for some of these areas and not for others. It makes you go, huh, you know what? I'm very focused on the future right now. How do I bring more time and energy and space into this moment? You may be like, wow, I couldn't stop writing about the past and I had nothing to write down about the future. All this does well, it's kind of tricky, right?

Is it makes you think about right now. When you're deliberating on the exercise afterwards, what are you really doing? You're doing the now moment. Gosh, why did I. Why am I right now thinking about yesterday? Why am I right now thinking about the future? And it places you in the moment of now. It's a really great exercise. It takes five minutes. So if and when you have five minutes, go for it. Because this Harry Chapin song let time go lightly. It's all about how time moves. Even though we know rationally it moves at the same tempo, the same pace.

It never speeds up, it ever slows down. But maybe this, this weekend, where for a lot of people, they celebrated a holiday on Thursday. So all of a sudden, the next day is Friday, and then it's the weekend. So all of a sudden you never ending pause from normalcy. Maybe you're going like, wow, time's moving so slow. Or you may be going like, it's December tomorrow. Where did this whole year go? Time is flying by. Why does that happen? Why does time seem to move at different paces? Because when we spend a lot of time in the past or a lot of time in the future, we often spend no time focusing on that time is happening.

Say it with me right now. So the fallacy is broken, right? The. The conundrum, the mystery. How does time seem to speed up and slow down? When you're not paying attention to something, it tends to fly by. And when you're so focused on something, it tends to slow down. I would say nine out of 10 people that I hear go, time's flying by so fast. As day goes by, things are flying by faster and faster. The answer is yes, because we're not spending time actually being in the time that we have at this time.

Let time go lightly today, everybody. Here's the morning verse of this beautiful song. Morning. A time for breaking ground and. And sowing seeds. And yet we give up our sunshine so we can buy what we need. Have a good night, everybody. And in the evening to share a fire with a friend or two.