30 | Jake Haber

In this message, Jake shares about his disastrous 30th birthday that ended up teaching him three valuable spiritual lessons! 

 

Quotes: 

Tao Te Ching: 

34 The great Tao is like a flood It can flow to the left or to the right

78  Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it.

John O' Donohue:

“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”

Proverbs 16:9:

"People do their best making plans for their lives, but the Eternal guides each step”

Luke 29:25-37:

“There was once a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. On the way he was attacked by robbers. They took his clothes, beat him up, and went off leaving him half-dead. Luckily, a priest was on his way down the same road, but when he saw him he angled across to the other side. Then a Levite religious man showed up; he also avoided the injured man. “A Samaritan traveling the road came on him. When he saw the man’s condition, his heart went out to him. He gave him first aid, disinfecting and bandaging his wounds. Then he lifted him onto his donkey, led him to an inn, and made him comfortable. In the morning he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take good care of him. If it costs any more, put it on my bill—I’ll pay you on my way back.’“What do you think? Which of the three became a neighbor to the man attacked by robbers?”“The one who treated him kindly,” the religious scholar responded. Jesus said, “Go and do the same.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn:

“Catastrophe here does not mean disaster. Rather, it means the poignant enormity of our life experience. It includes crisis and disaster, the unthinkable and the unacceptable, but it also includes all the little things that go wrong and that add up. The phrase reminds us that life is always in flux, that everything we think is permanent is actually only temporary and constantly changing. This includes our ideas, our opinions, our relationships, our jobs, our possessions, our creations, our bodies, everything.” 

“Life only unfolds in moments. The healing power of mindfulness lies in living each of those moments as fully as we can, accepting it as it is as we open to what comes next—in the next moment of now”

Discussion Questions:

What is a lesson you learned from a plan gone wrong?

What is a “strawberry” in your life?