Augustin once described the lifesaving quality of beauty as “a plank amidst the waves of the sea”.
What does lifesaving beauty look like? What images come to your mind? How is beauty lifesaving?
Driftwood
Ordinary beauty
Something as ordinary as a sun-umbrella, it’s beauty suddenly before my eyes brightens my view of my surroundings. It arrives unexpected, sacred and ordinary.
Where do you notice the beauty of God in both the vastness of the horizon and the ordinary particular?
Dolphins
Blue skies and white clouds
Beneath endless horizon
I watch dolphins play
Where do you notice the playfulness of God? How do you join God’s playfulness? What are your ways of being playful?
Sometimes you need the ocean light
Sometimes you need the ocean light
and colors you’ve never seen before
painted through an evening sky.
…so that you can fly and become free
by being still and by being still here.
David Whyte, Second Sight
Breathing deeply
I am from Κοβρος – (Cyprus)
stepping off the plane –
breathing deeply… letting go
ocean blue nourishing the soul
Lebanese Cheese pies in the Ayia Napa Monastery
resting, belonging, connecting
laughter, food, friends
nourishing, sustaining, renewing
What refreshes your soul? When or where do you breathe deeply?
With the Eyes of the Heart 