… watching for the brushstrokes of God
“God is present in the details of the everyday but is also visible when we pull back and take a wider gaze upon our lives and pay attention to the patterns and ways things have been woven together.”
— Christine Valters Paintner, With eyes of heart
What weavings do you discover?
With vibrant sunset
Nourishing my heart and soul
Entering thin space
How do we enter into thin, liminal spaces?
Shadows lengthening
Dreams, longings, limitations
Slowing toward rest
What prayer rises from your afternoon?
Sunsets draw us. Is it their quiet beauty? Their stunning colors? Their peacefulness? Their promise of rest at the end of the day? The permission to let go as the sun dips below the horizon? A spaciousness to breathe and be rejuvenated?
How do sunsets draw you?
Someone had built a cairn at the beach. Cairns have been around for a long time, sometimes they are used to mark a trail, at other times they are placed as a memorial marker. Sometimes we yearn for some direction, a path to reveal itself. At other times we need to mark a point in our journey to remember, celebrate, grieve or simply to stop and rest.
What points in your journey have you marked or long to mark? What direction do you seek?
Fishing out at sea
watching, waiting, sitting still
the beauty, not the catch
What activities draw us because of their restfulness?
With the Eyes of the Heart 