Vibrant with color
in winter preparation
squirrelling away
How do you find joyful moments?
Autumn joy
Waxwing
Sweetening the morn
with honey-drenched melody
a cedar waxwing. – Edward Ibeh
Who or what sweetens your morning?
Golden threads
There are things
We get through
That we grieve
Only later—
When some new loss
Pulls them to the surface
Of the deep well
In which they’ve
Been submerged.
And so today
Our grief for
The world as we’ve
Known it,
For plans laid down,
For possibilities
Now gone forever,
Is laced with
Golden threads
Of loss we had forgotten,
As if distant waves
Are lapping
On an unseen shore
In the dark of night. Judy Brown
What golden threads of loss are rising to the surface for you?
Winter approach
Everything in me
is quiet like
a rug spread
out in the sun to dry. – Barbara Gibson
What does quiet look like within you?
Silence
“We need to find God, and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Teresa of Calcutta
What touches your soul?
Beneath the storm
Let there be
an opening
into the quiet
that lies beneath
the chaos,
where you find the peace
you did not think
possible
and see what shimmers
within the storm.” Jan Richardson, The Cure For Sorrow
What do you discover beneath the chaos?
With the Eyes of the Heart 