… watching for the brushstrokes of God
“The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.” ~ Howard Thurman
Where is your green edge?
“There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.” ~ Howard Thurman
Where is that place in your life?
When the wind blows, we imagine she is erasing every
injustice,
sweeping misdoings from the east to the west,
making room for something new, a more whole world.
Instead, what we don’t realize is that she is rustling the
tree branches
to sing us a song.
Instead, she is sowing seeds across the landscapes,
seeds that tomorrow will become the beauty that
restores us.
Instead, she’s whispering for us to hold on,
to keep going, to water those seeds,
because one day, they will show us
the way home. ~ Kaitlin B Curtice, Native
How does your imagination hold wind and seed?
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation…Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
What questions have transformed you?
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
that fostered the brightness of the day. ~ John O’Donohue
The earth is always speaking, but over time, we lose the ability to listen. If we are lucky, we return again. If we make room inside of ourselves for childlikeness, we will make room for the ability to learn again, to be small, humble people who ask questions instead of making demands, to listen to the land instead of carving it into pieces for profit. ~ Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native
How do you listen for the sacredness of the earth?
With the Eyes of the Heart 