In the spring magic happens all around us. New life emerges from the seemingly barren ground, colors seem brighter, and birds burst forth in song. “Deep hidden springs of magic” as Alfred Noyes wrote.
Are you growing in awareness?
Greening
Visio
Spend some time gazing at the image. What draws your eyes? What narrative does it draw you into? Or what walk does it take you on? What feelings or emotions does it evoke in you?
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?
Difficult times
In bleak and difficult times you must always keep something beautiful in your heart. ~ Pascal
What beauty do you hold onto?
Grounding
Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote “It is only framed in space that beauty blooms.” I wonder how space allows for ordinary miracles that ground us and strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open in difficult times, turning and returning to the center when too many demands and chaos pull us like centrifugal forces off center.
What space nourishes grounding?
Marked
… So let us be marked
not for sorrow. …
but for claiming
what God can do
within the dust,
within the dirt,
within the stuff
of which the world
is made,
and the stars that blaze
in our bones,
and the galaxies that spiral
inside the smudge
we bear. ~ Jan Richardson
With the Eyes of the Heart 