THE WAY IT IS

 "Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid."

~ Frederick Buechner ~

The quote above is TRUE in that

Beautiful and terrible things DO happen,

All the time, to each of us...

Sometimes both in the same day.

And somehow, all of it plays out.

Always.

So, in hindsight, no need for fear.

We survive. We evolve. We pick ourselves up

And become useful to others who 

Come along behind.

We are resilient, and our pain makes us beautiful,

And grows us in compassion,

And throughout it all,

Known to us, or

Unbeknownst,

We are carried

And filled

With the Grace of

God. 

Living is life, and life is up and down and all around. 

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BAGGAGE

"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."

~ Voltaire ~

We come at life so FULL of our history:

Trusting or suspicious,

Dragging or lightly,

With happiness or dread.

It makes for challenging interactions-

Very few of them 

Completely clean or

Clear. 

I accept the potentially convoluted history of new people I encounter.

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FLOWERING CHANGE

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills."

~ Chinese Proverb ~

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July 1st, Google Blogspot is disabling the email sending feature,

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I considered stopping writing it,

I considered all kinds of options,

And decided on this one. 

It's where the energy led me- 

I believe there's value here- and if you do too,

Become a Daily Enlightenment's "Member."

And in the new format, you will get an image every day 

To accompany the words... 

There will be a couple weeks of blogs posted in both places

And then,

Just there. 

I gracefully accept the inevitable process of change. 

PARTY INVITATION

"I am the sunlight to the soil of my own soul."

~ Muriel Strode ~

We are so good at fooling ourselves.

It's a game we love to play-

We invite energy we don't want and then wonder why it's showing up,

Like announcing a party and then

Being mad and bewildered when the guests

Arrive.

I take responsibility for what I attract. 

HOT OR COLD?

"Cussing the weather is mighty poor farming."

~ African American Proverb ~

A butterfly bush that grows 10 feet tall in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Grows 5 feet tall in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania:

Shorter growing season- less sun. 

But in the Pocono Mountains, because of so much delicious rain, 

A pine tree grows 100 feet tall,

While in Santa Fe, it's a shrubby bush.

And we are like that.

Some of us are more vital in the heat, and some in the cold,

Some in the mountains, and some by the beach.

Are we a tumbleweed, or dune grass?

The knowing is inside each one.

It's up to us to answer the invitation.

I don't pretend to be something other than I am. 

RISING FROM THE ASHES

"Fire is love and water sorrow."

~ Proverb ~

When we are burned out,

We are like a forest fire, quenched.

And from this black singed earth grow the 

Most impossibly fresh green sprouts.

They are exquisite,

And beautiful,

And new. 

Life renews us as it must. 

THE UNKNOWN

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

We claim not to like the unknown,

But if we're honest with ourselves and consider it truly,

I think we will find it's actually quite enjoyable.

If we don't know how something will play out,

We can imagine it going any way we desire,

Any way that pleases us to imagine.

Once it's done, once it's known, there's no more imagining,

There's only the dealing with whatever has happened,

And even if it's rough, or tough, or tragic, there's still fun possible

In the unknown of that.

The game then becomes, what are we going to do now?

Mystery is a delightful form of play.