… watching for the brushstrokes of God
I have been thinking about posture. Maybe because I entered the new year sick while on vacation and didn’t feel like tackling anything. We often start with tackling resolutely whatever needs improving. Yet, in the beginning, God’s Spirit hovered…
With what posture do you enter a new year?
“[A bee] was hovering among some blackberry sprays, just touching the flowers here & there in a very tentative way, yet all unconsciously, life – life – life – was left behind at every touch, as the miracle-working pollen grains were transferred to the place where they could set the unseen spring working.” ~ Lillias Trotter
Does your light touch leave life behind?
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few. ~ Emily Dickinson
Each small step bringing life, how does your prairie take shape?
Recently I was introduced to the word chaordic which is “used to describe recognizable and predictable patterns within systems of chaos”. In the days of unpredictability, change and chaos we need to learn to look for the hidden patterns that are signs of God’s continuing presence to anchor and guide us.
How do you discover the order hidden underneath the chaos?
“New beginnings start in darkness, in the process of letting go, and stepping down, just as we see in nature, as the trees lose their leaves, and seeds fall to be buried in the Earth.” ~ Abbey of the Arts
What new beginnings might your letting go invite?
To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with one another, we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcomes of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for unlimited possibility. ~ James Carse
How do you live into possibility?
With the Eyes of the Heart 