A friend sent me these photos of an elegant bloom hanging in air, a little speck of bedecked petals hovering above the blossoming garden like a hummingbird seeking her fair portion of pollen. There is such rare beauty we walk past, over, through each day, but we too often fail to pause and take aContinue reading “Elegant Bloom”
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Shade of Silence
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk. —Charles Spurgeon Sometimes I sit in the shade of silence, a corner or some placed removed from the common area, aContinue reading “Shade of Silence”
Awakening Thanks
Grief-lined faces fill my mind … scattering my dreams as I shun sleep again…. I know this worn path; once smooth stones become unclimbable when in weakness we bear every affliction alone. Hefting our own pains, we laden on struggles of others, barnacles of immense weight, but there is ease when we release all miseryContinue reading “Awakening Thanks”
Poetic Meanderings 