🌱 Monday Meditation
Living the Liminal — The Gospel of Chartreuse
🌱 Monday Meditation
Living the Liminal — The Gospel of Chartreuse
Dear ones,
Chartreuse is not quite green, not quite yellow—yet wholly radiant. It does not ask permission to be liminal; it simply isa vibrant both/and.
I’ve been thinking lately about how we live our lives at the threshold. Between grief and joy. Between exile and home. Between breaking and blooming. This in-between is not a mistake. It’s not a failure to resolve. It is holy ground.
We are so often taught to pick a side, to make it clean, to choose the binary. But what if sacredness lives in the shimmer between? What if truth breathes most freely in the complexity?
Chartreuse teaches us something vital: that contradiction is not collapse. It is tension made visible. It is where transformation lives.
To hold both/and is not to compromise. It is to compost—to let things rot and renew simultaneously. To hold both/and is not to dilute our commitments. It is to deepen them in the soil of complexity. It is to learn that joy is not the absence of sorrow, but the ability to remain tender in its presence.
This is not the gospel of certainty. This is the gospel of aliveness.
So this Monday, I invite you to take a breath. To stand at your own thresholds. To bless the space that doesn’t resolve. To claim the color that doesn’t fit. To say yes to a faith that is unfinished, textured, composting, and glowing—like chartreuse in the morning sun.
There is beauty here.
There is gospel here.
With you in the radiant in-between,
—RCE+
✨ Ritual: Threshold Tending
Find a liminal space—a doorway, a garden edge, the place where floor meets wall, or even the crease between two pages of a book. Let this be your sacred threshold.
Light a candle (or touch a leaf, hold a stone—something that feels alive). As you do, whisper:
“I bless the space that does not resolve. I welcome the truth that shimmers.”
Place your hand over your heart and breathe into the tension you’re holding today—whatever is both true andcontradictory. Name it without solving it. Name it as sacred.
Close with this affirmation:
“I am becoming in the between. I am not incomplete—I am unfolding.”
🌀 Reflection Question:
What is one area of your life where you are being invited to dwell in the both/and—not to fix or resolve, but to stay tender and awake?
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Let’s keep unfolding together at Our Collective Becoming.
With gratitude and grace,
—Roberto Che Espinoza+