“Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a clearing. It’s opening up a emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves to feel and think and dream and question.” ~ Brene Brown
How do you create clearings?
Stillness
Fannie Lou Hamer
“Rest comes as rest comes … When it comes, it is balm to the spirit and solace to the soul. This is the rest that wafts from a wellspring of intentional justice seeking as spiritual practice. … Fannie Lou Hamer was cloistered in an activist movement, finding her focus, restoration, and life in God in the midst of the beloved community already here and yet coming.” ~ Barbara Holmes, Joy Unspeakable
Do you find rest in seeking justice?
Communal knowing
“…the process of creating provides an organic, hands-on, and communal approach to knowing.” ~ Makoto Fujimura
How do you join this process?
Difficult times
In bleak and difficult times you must always keep something beautiful in your heart. ~ Pascal
What beauty do you hold onto?
Stir up peace
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What responsibility will take you one step further?
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?
With the Eyes of the Heart 