Do flowers feel cozy wrapped tight in green before they bloom? Is exposure to air and sunlight and ecstatic revelation or a terrifying transition? If flowers are like people, probably all of the above.
How do you feel about a change that is happening in your life?
“Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”
—Bradley Whitford
How do you make grace happen?
Your heart is not made of cogs and springs and little bits of machined metal. But it is a pump made of muscle, and if all goes well it does work like a well-oiled machine. The mystery and wonder is not in how a heart works. The mystery and wonder is in the fact that it works at all.
What known, predictable, ordinary thing fills you with wonder?
“Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre
What mistake have you made by being insufficiently radical?
Every single person’s fingerprint is unique. No hand is quite like any other. Which is no reason to stop there when with a little paint and effort you can really make your hands stand out in a crowd.
How do you highlight your own unique qualities for the world to see?
