April 18, 2022: the most photo-compelling day of all—at least in these parts, at least in recent memory… a day not even necessary to leave the comfort of the house in order to frame the visions of beauty.
Perhaps this date gifted a reminder of the guidance: “Be here now!” While travel to the exotic
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may expand horizons and spark imagination;
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| True Signs Apr 28, 2018 |
a vital window to the spiritual life comes home in being present to each individual’s gift from the Divine, the True Self.
Absorbed In yesterday’s amazing display, my being thrilled in the awesome manifestation of the images containing wholeness: light and dark,
lime-green spring holding bleak winter—a holy embrace.
Often beauty takes breath away with rainbow-hued dusk
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| Winter Containment |
in morning-lit webs of life
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in the contours tracing the pathways we travel;
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and yet, perhaps more importantly, holding steady in the present sometimes sends revelations through the worn boards of the barn, and
and like the grace of aging well, in the lichen-covered, decaying, no-longer functional, or then
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from an always-open doorway.
And Beauty is but one of the names of God. The Presence manifests in Long-Suffering (cf Ann Bedford Ulanov, The Wizard’s Gate),
in giving to the struggle for Justice, and, of course, through longing further in the almost unendurable, soul-stretching hands of Love.
“Jesus said: I am the light above everything.
I am everything.
Everything came forth from me,
and everything reached me.
Split wood, I am there.
Life up a rock, you will find me there.”
[Gospel of Thomas 77. Cited in:
Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent, p. 45]
