“No” is a complete sentence. ~Anne Lamott
What is the invitation?
Complete
Encounters
“Our encounters with strangers—the unknown, the unexpected, foreign elements that spark our fear—are precisely the places where we are most likely to encounter God.” ~ Christine Valters Paintner
What sparks your fear?
Experiment
The Sabbath is the day to experiment with beauty that teases your hunger to know more glory. ~ Dan B. Allender
How do you experiment with beauty?
Eyes wide open
“To be an artist it is necessary to live with the eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark.” ~ Jan Phillips
How do you live with eyes wide open?
Awakening
I have discovered that something is awakened through failure, tragedy, and disappointment. It is a place of learning and potential creativity. In such moments you can get lost in despair or denial, or you can recognize the failure and run toward the hope of something new.
How do you run towards hope?
Be a trout
“Be a trout instead,” I said. “Endeavor to go upstream into the tributaries and find clear, pure waters. Create upstream, and then what you create will affect the whole stream.” ~ Makoto Fujimura
Do you travel upstream?
With the Eyes of the Heart 