… watching for the brushstrokes of God
“God of making and unmaking, of tearing down and re-creating, you are my home and habitation, my refuge and place of dwelling.
In your hollows I am re-formed, given welcome and benediction, beckoned to rest and rise again, made ready and sent forth.” ~ Jan Richardson, Night Visions
How are you re-formed?
“The mind is to be a reservoir of Light — free, ready to give color and form, ready to speak from Wisdom’s Source. Silence is the opening note. The Indwelling Light illumines the heart and mind, loosening the sightless, stormswept self. The freeing of Light, of God’s own Life within, is the means of self-expression — not self-filled expression — but God-like freedom.” ~ Elsie Nevins Morgan
How do you give color and form to God-like freedom?
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation…Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
What questions have transformed you?
“And the thing about blooming is, nothing about the process is easy. It requires every part of you to stretch upward, with your roots firmly planted in the ground; and in the sun, and in the rain, and wind, you stand anyway, even against the pull of the soil.” ~ Morgan Harper Nichols
Where are you blooming?
“What I saw was the power of a flutist to move a town, address an evil, and bring the powerful to accountability. Without any visible power or even prestige, much less a violent weapon, a flutist transformed a whole community.“ ~ John Paul Lederach, The Moral Imagination
How do you use creativity or art to transform your community?
“I always think that that’s the secret of change — that there are huge gestations and fermentations going on in us that we are not even aware of. And then, sometimes, when we come to a threshold, crossing over, which we need to become different, that we’ll be able to be different, because secret work has been done in us, of which we’ve had no inkling.” John O’Donahue in an interview with Krista Tippett
As we stand at the threshold of the Advent season, how will you pay attention to the secret work God is doing within you?
With the Eyes of the Heart 