… watching for the brushstrokes of God
“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home.” – Wendell Berry
Where has your journey taken you to find the “be at home”?
“How often do we resist beginning a creative project due to the fear that it will not live up to the image in our minds? Humility invites us to release those expectations and enter into the call of our gifts, knowing that it may look very differently from what we imagined.” Christine Valters Paintner, The Artist Rule
What would you do if you knew you wouldn’t fail?
“The earth is a revelation, offering itself to us daily in an astonishing array of beauty and suffering. What is required of us is living with a level of openness and vulnerability to the joys and sorrows of the world.” Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
How do you take in the beauty and the suffering?
“You must find a way to get in the way and get in good trouble, necessary trouble…you have a moral obligation, a mission, and a mandate when you leave here, to go out and seek justice for all. You can do it. You must do it.” Words from Martin Luther King Jr. to John Lewis
What trouble is calling out to you?
“Find out what makes you most alive and do that, for what the world needs, more than anything else, is people who are fully alive.” Howard Thurman
When do you feel fully alive?
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise… (Maya Angelou)
How do you find the breath and air to rise in the midst of the challenges and trauma of these days?
With the Eyes of the Heart 