“Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep-desired long-awaited spring.”
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How deep a stillness is needed?
Winter patience
Tending to the moments
“both art and spirituality are about tending to the moments of life: listening deeply, holding space, encountering the sacred, and touching eternity.” ~ Christine Valters Painters
What art form helps you tend to life’s moments?
On Shore
All that we do
Is touched with ocean, yet we remain
On the shore of what we know.
~ Richard Wilbur, Walking to sleep
Will you remain?
From beneath
“There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one’s experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.” ~ Howard Thurman
How does your inner spring bubble up?
Epiphany
This is the map
that begins with a star. …
Look starward once,
then look away.
Close your eyes
and see how the map
begins to blossom
behind your lids, … ~ Jan Richardson
What emerges?
Taking a break
I am taking a break from my daily postings for the 12 days of Christmas to reflect and rest. Maybe you like to take this opportunity to look over the archives, …on the 1st day take a look at December 2020 and notice which painting or quote catches your eye today, …for the 2nd day look back at January 2021, and so forth. See you back on January 6.
With the Eyes of the Heart 