… watching for the brushstrokes of God
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts…”~ Margaret Mead
“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
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What responsibility will take you one step further?
“In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world’s rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned.” ~ Annie Dillard
How do you ride the monsters deeper?
“I don’t think we’ll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.” ~ Robert Barron
Do you see it?
“…and I stood there watching stream after engulfing stream plunge itself over the cliff above into the pool below. I imagined the steady engulfing power of mystery that breaks through our hardened places to destroy the roots of corruption in us. I watched, and the water would not relent.” ~ Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native
How do you stand in the steady engulfing power of mystery?
With the Eyes of the Heart 