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Posts tagged ‘Trust’

Jan 21

Spinning Wildflowers

“God is not a technician. God is an Artist. This is the God who made you. The same God who lives inside of you. He comes into us, then comes out of us, in a million little ways. That’s why there’s freedom, even in the blah. Hope, even in the dark. Love, even in the fear. Trust, even as we face our critics. And believe in the midst of all that? It feels like strength and depth and wildflower spinning; it feels risky and brave and underdog winning. It feels like redemption. It feels like art.”― Emily P. Freeman, A Million Little Ways: Uncover the Art You Were Made to Live

“If you ask a question, you
can’t stop there.
You must keep going.
You can’t stop there: World will
wave; will be
facetious, angry. You can’t stop there.
You have to keep on going.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

Hope
Light
Joy
Laughter
Grit
Faith
Trust
Enthusiasm
Resilience
Stay strong
One step at a time
Keep going
Spinning wildflowers.

“I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer – he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.”― Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

Oct 31

Fluidity and Flow

“We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity – in freedom”― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.”― Mark Doty

The world opens or closes to the aperture of your heart.
Soften, let light in.
Receptivity and allowing.
Water through, around and over rocks.
Weaving, wandering, with ease.
Mystery, unknowing, curiosity.
Paths to discovery, wonder, transformation.
Ebb and flow.
Reinvention and regeneration.
Fluidity and flow.

“It is best to live in a state of perplexity and fluidity, like water, than to live in a hardened and doctrinal state of believing one knows everything.”― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight

Aug 3

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Unfolding Paths

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi

“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” – Rumi

Intuition.
Knowing.
Sensing.

Trust.
Observe.
Listen.

Enjoy.
Wonder.
Wander.

Still small voice.
Heed the call.
Step by step.

“Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” – Rumi

Feb 20

Always Where We Are

“To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.”― Mark Nepo

“Whether through the patterns left in snow, or geese honking in the dark, or through the brilliant wet leaf that hits your face the moment you are questioning your worth, the quiet teachers are everywhere, pointing us to the unlived portion of our lives. When we think we are in charge, the lessons dissolve as accidents or coincidence. But when we’re humble enough to welcome the connections, the glass that breaks across the room is offering us direction, giving us a clue to the story we are in.”― Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk: Daring to Live an Authentic Life

God does not require silence to speak.
We require it to hear, see, experience and immerse into beauty, joy, grace, love that is overflowing and in abundance.
Signs, wonders, cues, clues, patterns, intuition, inclination, serendipity, coincidence, direction, clarity, discernment, guidance.
Written and painted all over each day, on our heart.
We are the obstacle.
We need quiet to overcome the noise of the world, others, self, ego to hear the still small voice that is narrating our life.
Inviting our participation and partaking.
Not the way we command and demand.
When we stop trying to change God to fit our way, we realize that we are the ones who need to change.
And if we don’t or do it slowly and imperfectly, we are still loved all the way through.
The miracle and gift of love that transcends all and descends to walk beside us in the details of each day.
Always where we are.

“life is always where we are.”― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Nov 15

Softly and Tenderly, Held

“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”― Corrie Ten Boom

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

May you find ease today.
Rhythm, flow, peace.
Put worry down to lighten up.
Find hope in the corners and crevices.
Small and big.
Joy in a smile, in laughter on an ordinary day.
Assured that what comes you will always be held, carried, accompanied.
Entering a place, space, being, presence, undefinable, nearness, depth.
A warmth, love and grace bigger than self and other.
Weaving all of the threads together in to a beautiful tapestry of color and texture.
Give into this hope, grace, love and light.
No fear, only trust.

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”― Corrie ten Boom

Oct 20

Hold Fast to Joy

“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”― Mark Buchanan, The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

“So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.”― May Sarton, Selected Poems

Not done.
Never really done.
The work of becoming.
Unfolding.
Fresh starts.
Long middles.
Sudden ends.
Making space for new beginnings.
Some chosen.
Most not.
Thresholds.
Bridges.
Seed to bloom.
Dirt to color.
Growing slowing.
Surely.
Pieces of a puzzle coming together.
Often without the box to see what the picture will be.
Trusting.
Changing.
A step at a time.
Joy on the journey.
Hold fast.

“Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can’t imagine.”― Kathleen Norris