… watching for the brushstrokes of God
“The earth is a revelation, offering itself to us daily in an astonishing array of beauty and suffering. What is required of us is living with a level of openness and vulnerability to the joys and sorrows of the world.” Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow
How do you take in the beauty and the suffering?
I have been watching the little creatures. It seems while we stay home they come out to play. Or do the birds just seem more plentiful and noisier? Are the bugs more busily crawling all over the place in the stillness of my life? Or does it catch my attention more?
Where do you find joy in the little things and creatures?
Clouds and fog,
drifting, settling
blanket like over the landscape,
wrapping the world
into a cocoon of God’s presence
We slow down and take one step at a time
as the path slowly reveals itself to us.
How does fog settle and unsettle you?
Imagination is the ability to see beyond what is and sense the almost imperceptible gentle breezes of the spirit. The artist sees a painting where there is only an empty canvas, a sculpture where there is only a stone. The prophet imagines a world not yet visible, naming truth to live into God’s fullness.
How do you develop your imagination? What do you imagine?
“The eye, when it opens, is like the dawn breaking in the night. When it opens a new world is there. … Love is the light in which we see each thing in it’s true origin, nature and destiny. If we could look at the world in a loving way, then the world would rise up before us full of invitations, possibility and depth.” John O’Donohue, Anam Cara
What do your eyes see? What invitations, possibilities and depth are you waking up to?
“Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small. We haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” Georgia O’Keeffe
What do we take the time to see? What do we avoid seeing? Where might we be invited to take more time to see?
With the Eyes of the Heart 