“You need something more to comfort you in brokenness when the pain is tall around you, to remind you that even here, you are infinitely loved. ~ Morgan Harper Nichols
What are the signs that speak comfort to you?
Infinitely loved
Fluent
I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding. ~ John O’Donohue
What are the surprises in your unfolding?
Pied piper
“What I saw was the power of a flutist to move a town, address an evil, and bring the powerful to accountability. Without any visible power or even prestige, much less a violent weapon, a flutist transformed a whole community.“ ~ John Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination
How do you use creativity or art to transform your community?
Continue
Into a world which needed you
My wish for you
Is that you continue
Continue
To be who and how you are
To astonish a mean world
With your acts of kindness
Continue
To dare to love deeply
And risk everything
For the good thing
Continue
~ excerpts from Maya Angelou Poem
Where do you need to hear “continue”?
No shallow pool
Your story is not just a shallow pool collecting a little rain here and there from what maybe-could’ve-should’ve been. Your story is a sea, weighted with mystery, and wave after wave it reveals more and more, no matter the opportunities you missed or left behind on the shore. ~Morgan Harper Nichols
What does it reveal to you?
Anavah
The Hebrew word anavah is usually translated as “humility,” a word we struggle with. What it conveys is to occupy your God-given space in the world—to not take up too much or too little. Thus we don’t squish anyone or force others to fill our space.
What would it look like to simply occupy the space that is yours? No more, no less.
With the Eyes of the Heart 