“One does not walk into the forest and accuse the trees of being off-center,
Nor do they visit the shore and call the waves imperfect.
So why do we look at ourselves this way?”
~ Tao Te Ching
Art by Jennifer Smith
Text & image source: Rivers in the Ocean https://web.facebook.com/RiversInTheOcean/
So you’ve seen my grandsons, now it’s time
to show off my granddaughter.
Here are some of the many faces of Miss Annie Marie
And here she is with her Big Dad and her Mompie
(AKA James and Natalie)
and her two brothers Joe and Alex
“Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine.
It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother,
the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family.
It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause,
the triumph of truth.”
– Menachem Begin
Text & image source: Return To Eden https://web.facebook.com/SpiritualTruths/
Happy Easter!
Shhh, Be quiet and very still. It’s there a gnawing ache, scratching from within. A hunger, but that’s not quite it. A Longing, an emptiness, a vast pit of despair. If you’re honest, and I trust, that to be difficult, if not impossible, to admit.
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There is, though, a certain freedom in admitting that it is there. I have done the very thing to irradicate this agony. Use of any number of distractions in the form of substance abuse, activity, striving for status and adulation, etc. It all left me hollow and even more desperate. It has become my belief that this is in all of us, placed there by God, that we might seek Him and gain His Peace in the mere seeking.
Michelangelo’s Creation of David in the Sistine Chapel
There is a slight problem though, alone again with my humanity I can’t endure…
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“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”
― John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
A praying mantis at my door,
evidence,
I can’t ignore.
I look for signs
everywhere,
indications that you are near.
And even though,
I swish him out,
he stares at me,
there is no doubt,
perhaps he’s here,
just to say,
that everything will be okay.
He’s part of the cosmic stream,
a messenger on sacred beams.
In mystical times,
I just sense,
cherished gifts of recompense.
A porthole opens to give me bliss,
a dulcet moment,
a sacred kiss.
My praying mantis,
dressed in green,
quietly heralds the unseen…..
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― Vincent van Gogh, painter, from The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu
Obscured vision
plunged me,
into domains unknown.
I had lost acquaintance with
the essence
of home.
Light was not visible,
only faint impressions,
in the language of shadows,
I heeded the lessons.
What does it mean to surrender to grace
to long for the comfort
of light’s embrace?
I was guided to luminance,
through blind reveries,
into creation’s abundance,
and faith’s treasuries.
Those defining moments,
when life is changed,
the before,
and the after,
never the same…
On the
other side,
of unfulfilled dreams,
where nothing appears to be what it seems,
gentle ripples
of growth,
shift the need to survive,
and coalesce the motion,
of love amplified!
Rest in the garden
of your heart
and understand that
joy and compassion
for others
blossom from
the same root.© 2018 Dennis Ference
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