The Christian holiday of Epiphany marks the visit of the Magi to the baby Jesus. They gave the baby gold, frankincense and myrrh. The baby gave them the revelation of the divine in human form. Sometimes you get the most surprising gifts in the most surprising places.
When has a gift come as an epiphany?
Gone away is the bluebird, here to stay is a new bird…It somehow seems like the new bird should be a cardinal, as dramatic in his red plumage as the bluebird, but utterly different. When something beautiful flies away it can be hard to trust that something just as lovely—but not at all the same—could be winging its way toward you.
What have you been able to see only when something else was gone?
What you’re supposed to do
when you don’t like a thing is change it.
If you can’t change it,
change the way you think about it.”
―Maya Angelou
What in your life would benefit from a change in how you think about it?
In a car with a manual transmission, the purpose of the clutch is to help ensure that the gears, which are traveling at different speeds, can mesh together seamlessly as you shift from one gear to another. By depressing the clutch pedal, the gears enter a zone where they are brought together without clashing.
Where is the zone in your life that allows you to mesh together the speeds of your heart, spirit, body and mind, so that you can move smoothly along your journey?
A good book not only brings a new world to you, it brings you into a new world. It allows you to see and to experience things that never actually happen to you, and to learn from events that take place only in the realm of imagination.
How have you been changed by a book?
