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Hi, my fellow traveler,

It happened to be the last Saturday in January 2026, when I recorded today’s audio.

Sometimes I do that.

I pause wherever I am, and I ponder and I think, “oh, I would love to share this with my fellow traveler. That’s you!

And so I share with you some of the highlights of the audio that’s attached to this text.

Take a deep breath, my friend. A really intentional, deep full breath, hold it… And exhale was a great big sigh. Do that a few more times wherever you are, and you’ll start to get a clearer or might I suggest, a more settled perspective.

Let’s ponder together,

contemplation;

and the power of stillness and silence and solitude.

So breathe in, sweet friend. And have a good exhale. Settle into your purple chair. Mine happens to be a stool at my kitchen peninsula today.

Another deep breath… Intentionally to calm and re-align and to just be…

Contemplation.

Is essential.

For action.

And then action brings you back to contemplation.

Contemplation is the food that fuels us as we go out into our corners of the world… Ponder that one… breath deeply…

“Just be quiet,”I gently whisper to you and to me.

Take a breath and stay in the silence that only you can really hear… That you can interpret…

And then I hear Jesus say, “come to me. Put something different in your mind, in your heart, and your soul. Contemplate. Breathe. Settle in, meditate. If you’re weary, if you’re tired, come to me.”

I think what sends me to my purple chair, is when I’m weary and tired, or maybe even perplexed and worried, etc.

Keep breathing deeply.

Listen.

When I do come to this purple chair, And I can hear and feel myself say, “ahhh…”

Then I have deeper eyes to see better. More attuned ears to hear better;

Better and more completely and clearly than my earth suit ears and eyes.

So I would say, that this purple chair stance… of contemplation and connection. Is a priority.

And the more we attend to that priority, the more we will be fully alive.

Ponder that one.

For Jesus said, “I have come that they might have life and have it to the full.”

If you can, sit a few more minutes in silence, stillness, and solitude.

Set down your “rectangle” that you might be holding and, even turn it off if you can.

Just for a minute.

You see these minutes accumulate. And they overflow. To your corner of the world. Oh, my friend.

From this purple chair to yours with much… Peace. Joy, love, hope.

Have a good day, a good day, indeed!

By the way, I’ve started to put these pauses on my website. I’m new to this so I’m not sure this one will make it today to that place… but it will be there eventually; archived with the first four pauses of 2026.

thispurplechair.com

A place of peace…