In our rush to avoid the mundane, we miss the miracles in the ordinary. In our hurry to find the secret of a life not yet lived, we miss the power of the sacred in the life we have now. In our haste to be noticed, we fail to notice the gifts we carry with us and have not yet delighted in. In our eagerness to please and join the crowd, we trade the life we have, for the life we think we should have.

This workshop is about the permission to see anew, and to hear, to touch, to smell and to taste life. I want to be at home in my own skin and taste the fullness of life. So do you. However, we live in a world out of breath and out of time. We over-accumulate, leaving us overstimulated, overindulged, overextended, over-committed, overdrawn, overanxious and over-medicated. What is the alternative? Embrace the sacred present.

Terry invites us to look at the tools-or conditions-that allow us to live mindful, wholehearted and in a state of grace. How do we practice this sacred present? Terry invites us to see anew each experience-regardless of how mundane or spiritual or irritating-as a container of divine presence (Based on the 1741 booklet by Jesuit Jean-Pierre de Caussade called The Sacrament of the Blessed Present). We are invited to live in the reality that there are no unsacred moments.