“Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a clearing. It’s opening up a emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question.” ~ Brene Brown
How do you create clearings?
Stillness
Transformation
“When we are able to fully release our need to control the outcome, thresholds become rich and graced places of transformation.” ~ Christine Valters Paintner
How do you open yourself to threshold grace?
Fannie Lou Hamer
“Rest comes as rest comes … When it comes, it is balm to the spirit and solace to the soul. This is the rest that wafts from a wellspring of intentional justice seeking as spiritual practice. … Fannie Lou Hamer was cloistered in an activist movement, finding her focus, restoration, and life in God in the midst of the beloved community already here and yet coming.” ~ Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable
Do you find rest in seeking justice?
Communal knowing
“…the process of creating provides an organic, hands-on, and communal approach to knowing.” ~ Makoto Fujimura
How do you join this process?
Difficult times
In bleak and difficult times you must always keep something beautiful in your heart. ~ Pascal
What beauty do you hold onto?
Stir up peace
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What responsibility will take you one step further?
With the Eyes of the Heart 