“We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.” ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
How do you find joy in the fragile spaces?
Fragile
Stay
“Wait with your hands open
to receive what could never come
except to what is empty
and hollow.” ~ Jan Richardson
What are your hollow spaces?
The road
“The road seen, then not seen, the hillside hiding
then revealing the way you should take,
the road dropping away from you as if leaving you
to walk on thin air, then catching you, holding you up,
when you thought you would fall, and the way forward
always in the end the way that you came, the way
that you followed…” ~ David Whyte
What is your road hiding and revealing?
Point of silence
“As with most great communicators, God knows that the point of silence and the pause between sentences is not to give the audience the chance to fill the silence with empty babbling but to help create more depth to the conversation.” ~ Renite J. Weems
How do you reach depth?
Gentleness
What if you bowed before every dandelion you met and wrote love letters to squirrels and pigeons who crossed your path? ~ Christine Valters Paintner
Bringing light
Evelyn Woodward speaks of the poet’s voice (or artist I would add) as “bringing the light of what is best in our history to bear on our struggles in the present and pointing to the unknown future with hope.”
What light from history do you bring to the hope going forward?
With the Eyes of the Heart 