…It is the opening of eyes long closed.
It is the vision of far off things
seen for the silence they hold…. ~ David Whyte
What do you see?
Eye opening
Eye of the storm
Howard Thurman loved to watch the ocean. It gave him a sense of “the ebb and flow of circumstances”. Storms did not frighten him, “unafraid I was held by the storm’s embrace.” They gave him an “overring immunity against most of the pain with which I would have to deal in the years ahead when the ocean was just a memory. The sense held: I felt rooted in life, in nature, in existence.”
How do you reach the stillness of the eye?
Heart sing
The morning awakens,
day stretching out to the horizon,
blue sky with sun rising,
solid ground beneath the feet
and birds singing in grateful awakening.
What makes your heart sing?
Hope has holes
Hope has holes
in it’s pockets.
It leaves little crumb trail,
so that we,
when anxious,
can follow it.
Hope’s secret:
It doesn’t know
the destination —
it knows only
that all roads
begin with one
foot in front
of the other. ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
River
“Here on the river I have known peace and beauty such as I never knew in any other place. There is always work here that I need to be doing and I have many worries, for life on the edge seems always threatening to go over the edge. But I am always surprised, when I look back on times here that I know to have been laborious or worrisome or sad, to discover that they were never out of the presence of peace and beauty, for here I have been always in the world itself.” ~ Wendell Berry
Where do you find peace and beauty on the edge?
Island of peace
Howard Thurman talks about the island of peace in the soul. An anchor of hope and stability in the tumultuous sea of our responsibilities and decisions, pressures and injustices. Here we bring our dreams and purposes into the presence of the God of our heart.
Do you know your island of peace?
With the Eyes of the Heart 