When day comes, we step out of the shade,
Aflame and unafraid.
The new dawn blooms as we free it,
For there is always light,
If only we’re brave enough to see it,
If only we’re brave enough to be it. ~ Amanda Gorman
When day comes
Navigating
We navigate this hazardous terrain
trying to advise You that there is indeed a struggle
there is a gap
…
Surviving a waking nightmare
beseeching You to break the shackles
You refuse to acknowledge even exist…
~ Martina McGowan
No words
Sometimes there are no words in the face of fear and despair.
How does one companion in such a time as this?
Lighting up
“When we look at the dreams that light up our heart,we grow the picture they paint as a go-to place.Then we say, ‘But it isn’t possible.’ We say, ‘That’s not my life.’ We say, ‘That’s just what I’d LIKE to happen, not what’s possible.’The dream should not die, just because I lack the power to make it possible. I need to identify other people who carry the same overwhelming vision, or whose heart-desires overlap with my own.” ~ Andy Raine, Northumbria
What can you do together?
Reservoir, canal, swamp I
Are you a reservoir, canal or swamp? Howard Thurman asks. A reservoir holds water. It stores it to be on hand when needed. It is a resource of abundance to be shared. It comes with openings for in-flowing and out-flowing.
What abundance do you store and share?
Proximity
…”To bear this blessing,
you must first take yourself
to a place where everyone
does not look like you
or think like you,
a place where they do not
believe precisely as you believe,
where their thoughts
and ideas and gestures
are not exact echoes
of your own. … “ ~ Jan Richardson
Where does this take you?
With the Eyes of the Heart 