Light: A 5-Day Memoir Into Stillness

Light: A 5-Day Memoir Into Stillness

Day 1: The Great Loop

Part 2 of 4 (Striving)

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Glenn DeVore
Jun 19, 2025
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This section, The Great Loop, continues Day 1 of the retreat. It picks up where the morning left off. Only now, the thought that surfaced earlier begins to unravel.

What follows is a walk, a wave of emotion, a missed turn, and an unexpected teaching. Sometimes the path reveals itself only after we lose it.


Day 1: Wanting to be Wanted

(Striving)


The Great Loop

As I slowly walked up the same path from the day before and passed the wooden platform, I remembered the emotions that had flooded through me in this very spot. The weight of the morning’s realization had left something unfinished. Just past the platform was a trail sign. The sign read “Great Loop Trail.”


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