… watching for the brushstrokes of God
“…if our days were routinely sun-filled, peaceful, tranquil, predictable, without conflict, their very serenity would soon seem flat, humdrum, and stale. God allows his brilliance to be highlighted by shadow and his summer warmth to be contrasted with winter chill so that we will know the difference and appreciate the light and warmth. There is purpose in the divine chiaroscuro.” ~ Luci Shaw
How does the light come?
“Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep-desired long-awaited spring.”
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How deep a stillness is needed?
“both art and spirituality are about tending to the moments of life: listening deeply, holding space, encountering the sacred, and touching eternity.” ~ Christine Valters Painters
What art form helps you tend to life’s moments?
All that we do
Is touched with ocean, yet we remain
On the shore of what we know.
~ Richard Wilbur, Walking to sleep
Will you remain?
“There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one’s experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.” ~ Howard Thurman
How does your inner spring bubble up?
This is the map
that begins with a star. …
Look starward once,
then look away.
Close your eyes
and see how the map
begins to blossom
behind your lids, … ~ Jan Richardson
What emerges?
With the Eyes of the Heart 