Accepting and surrendering,
stressing and anxious thinking.
There is a direction
to choose each day.© 2018 Dennis Ference
Light
Being
The reality of all life is, as it were, an unceasing dance on all levels of being, material, instinctual, psychic, and spiritual, in which every motion of the tiniest part, weaving patterns of exchange and transformation, affects the whole.
~ Helen M. Luke
Mystery of Things
So, when after having made every effort to understand, we are ready to take upon ourselves the mystery of things, then the most trivial of happenings is touched by wonder, and there may come to us, by grace, a moment of unclouded vision.
~ Helen M. Luke
Death
Facing the seeming
emptiness of death
with trust and peace
requires of us a life
of practiced humility
and self-surrender.© 2018 Dennis Ference
Joy
Joy is the best makeup.
~ Anne Lamott
Those who understand…
Those who understand
see themselves in all,
and all, in themselves.~ Bhagavad-Gita
Shine Your Light
Here’s a reminder
to shine your light.
Lighthouses don’t go running
all over an island
looking for boats to save;
they just stand there shining.~ Anne Lamott
The Human Heart
The human heart is the home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous? Can we listen with out whole beings, not just our minds, and offer our attention rather than our opinions?
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Hate
You can safely assume
you’ve created God
in your own image
when it turns out
that God hates
all the same people
you do.~ Anne Lamott
That Bigger Story
Your story does not stand alone.
it is interwoven
with the stories of countless others,
affected by and affecting
the lives of persons you love
and persons you do not even know.
It is, furthermore, a page
in the book of the entire universe.
Name it as such
and dare to claim as your own,
that bigger story.© 2018 Dennis Ference
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