Amidst all the pressure
to keep going and to keep going,
may you also take time to learn the art of being;
being Loved,
being Held,
being Seen,
being in the Presence
of the One
who calls you
to rest. ~ Morgan Harper Nichols
Transforming Rest
Beloved
If you would enter into the wilderness,
do not begin without a blessing.
Do not leave
without hearing
who you are:
Beloved,
named by the One
who has traveled this path before you. ~ Jan Richardson
What are your spaces of “beloved” that allow you to enter the wilderness?
Mystery
“What is our life on earth, if not discovering, becoming conscious of, penetrating, contemplating, accepting, loving this mystery of God’s, the unique reality which surrounds us, and in which we are immersed like meteorites in space? “In God we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).” ~ Carlo Carretto, Letters from the desert
What are your doorways into God’s mystery?
Tears
Grief is,…, a powerful form of soul activism. If we refuse or neglect the responsibility for drinking the tears of the world, her losses cease to be registered by the ones meant to be the receptors of that information. ~ Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
What grief activates your soul?
Positive peace
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens’ Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail
What peace to you work toward?
Spacious
“ A lot of unimportant inner litter and bits and pieces have to be swept out first….So let this be the aim…to turn one’s innermost being into a vast empty plain, with none of that treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of “God” can enter you, and something of “Love”, too…the love you can apply to small, everyday things.” ~ Etty Hillesum
How do you create inner empty plains?
With the Eyes of the Heart 