Plants manage to flower—if only briefly—even in the harshest of conditions. Even in hard times there are often flashes of joy.
What has made your heart bloom lately?
Dawn
“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”
― Oscar Wilde
What is becoming clearer to you?
On the Calendar
In times of pandemic, for many of us most things have fallen off the calendar. Events are cancelled, routines are changed and we live with the uncertainty of not knowing when things might return to normal. Depending on how you look at it, the calendar is a barren desert or a vast and welcoming open field.
How do you handle loss of structure?
Easter
Life—Easter improbably asserts—can come from death. This might seem like an absurd claim, if nature didn’t tell us exactly the same thing.
Where have you seen life arising from a place of death?
Stretch
Sleep refreshes and renews us. But awakening can mean far more than getting out of bed in the morning. We awaken our senses, awaken our conscience, awaken to spiritual truths. Sometimes awakening involves metaphorical as well as physical stretching.
How are you stretching yourself these days?