Each day we can meet freshness afresh. We may be tightly scheduled or at loose ends; blithe with anticipation or shivering in the shadow of some dread; stultified by routines and constraints or free to go where we will, do what we want; and still we can meet freshness.
We meet freshness in encounters with others and othernesses. There are others unfamiliar to us but part of a familiar milieu; there are others we meet who take us by surprise; there are others who, through steady application, we expect to become familiar with; and there are others we are already very familiar with.
How to have encounters with this range of others?
I suggest the following: since freshness wants to meet you in the course of the day, commit to or pray for the following: first, alertness to the presence of others, and a habit of active noticing of others and othernesses in one’s vicinity, and second, readiness to accept invitations, and a habit of actively inviting others to encounters.
This start-of-the-day attitude is an invitation to freshness to break into one’s day with encounters which will only become richer with reflection.