* Stopping something before you get in over your head
* Biding your time
* Strategizing for a later advance
* Thinking it over
* A breakdown of rules, structures, and forms of conduct
* A reconsideration or revisioning of forms, structures, and rules
* Releasing an embittered or dogmatic perspective
* Shutting down rather than opening up
* Melancholia on the rise
* Facing the inevitable
* The destabilization of foundations or the ruin, decay, or breakdown of tradition
* A time of looking inward to find a kind of stoic acceptance
* A time of great concentration
* The death or downfall of old men, men in power, old patriarchs, etc.
* The intensification of our desire to control, harness, or contain
* The tightening of hard lines, boundaries, limits or barriers
* Rejection, the cosmic “no,” defeat, and inhibition
* Black and white thinking amplified
* Serious, focused, mature and responsible attitudes
* What we can and can’t hold or contain
* The desire to return to a “good old” time or a “good old way” of doing things
* Generational breakdowns, torch passing
* The end of an era
* The feeling of being on hold, of one part of you waiting and waiting for being released from some duty, obligation, or confining set of circumstances
* Creative tunnel vision
* The collapse or failure of time-tested _____ (fill in the blank)
* A change or transformation to deeply held principles
* Standstills or standoffs
* Delays with regard to structural or procedural issues
* Fated events change attitudes, knowledge, or beliefs
And the list could go on!
Prayer: Help us to find the freedom within every limit, the release of expectations within the performance of every duty, and the carefree joy and spontaneity held in the secret chambers of responsibility.
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