“What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty?” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Uncertainty
Remember
We do not long remember those artists who followed the rules more diligently than anyone else. We remember those who made the art from which “the rules” inevitably followed. ~ Art & Fear
Who do you remember? What new spaces did they open up?
Edge of glory
What a waste it is to be surrounded by heaven, by a sky ‘made [brilliant] by Angels wings’ and to be unaware of it. Perhaps the first step is that we really should want to unearth God in our midst… [to] let the mundane become the edge of glory, and find the extraordinary in the ordinary.“ ~ Esther De Waal
How do you look for possibility not perfection?
When…
[When] the ghost of loss gets into you, may a flock of colors, indigo, red, green and azure blue, come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. ~ John O’Donohue
What losses are heightened at this time of year? What spaces of wonder open up?
Fear not
Advent…coming…totally unexpected and disruptive…beyond our imagination…arriving with the words “Fear not”.
Are we truly ready to lean in?
Prepare the way
We read and hear and sing and ponder the words of the Prophet Isaiah “prepare the way of the Lord, make straight a highway….and the glory of the Lord will be revealed”.
How do we prepare?
With the Eyes of the Heart 