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Sunflowers

 

 

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."

~Helen Keller


 

 

 

“Have no fear when darkness falls because there’s a light that shines within us all. There’s a flame that burns in every heart. It’s the will we have that lights the spark. Once in every lifetime, there’s a chance to stand apart."

~ Theme song from 2002 Winter Olympics

Susan carrying the Olympic torch
Red Flowers

 

 


"I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower - the Light in the darkness, the Voice in silence."

~Helen Keller


“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

~William Wordsworth

Ocean Light
Photo was taken at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina

 

 


"Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers."

~Mary Sarton

 


“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

~Chinese Proverb

Candle
Winter Branch


"Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."

~Vesta M. Kelly

 

 

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

~ Ecclesiastes

Kanuga Fall Tree

Hands Raised, Sunset

 

 


The soul is a metaphor for the place where transformation takes place.

 

 

“Water is God’s gift to living souls, to cleanse us, to purify us, to sustain and renew us.”

~From a Jewish ceremony

Waterfall from the West Coast Trail in Northern Canada - Photograph by Stan Schroeder.
Princeton Chapel Inside

 

 

"Hope can and will come from the least suspected quarters, whether in the secret corner of our own hearts or of others.”

~L. Stuhl Mueller C.P.

 

 

"There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light."

~John A. Sanford

Red Dirt

 

 

 

 

"I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place."

~Rufus Jones

 

 

“I have called you by name, you are mine… you are precious in my sight.”

~Isaiah 43:1-4

Julian Sarah Daniels Hands
Rocks

 

 

 

Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love for God, love for one another, love for creation, love for life itself.

~Gerald May

 

 

 

People with mental problems are our neighbors. They are members of our congregations, members of our families; they are everywhere in this country. If we ignore their cries for help, we will be continuing to participate in the anguish from which those cries for help come. A problem of this magnitude will not go away. Because it will not go away, and because of our spiritual commitments, we are compelled to take action.

~Rosalynn Carter

Rocking Chairs
Fall Leaves

Presence is what we are all starving for. Real presence! We are too busy to be present, too blind to see the nourishment and salvation in the crumbs of life, the experience of each moment. Yet the secret of life is this: There are no leftovers! There is nothing -- no thing, no person, no experience, no thought, no joy or pain -- that cannot be harvested and used for nourishment on our journey to God.

~Macrina Wiederkehr

 

 

 

 

Letting go of the need to control our spiritual path is especially helpful in the dark night because in these times we do not choose a path. We experience the path as given. Walking in trust, along the path that is given, is our way of saying yes to God.

~Sondra Cronk

Wooded Path
Tulip

The fullness of one's soul evolves slowly.

We're asked to go within to gestate the newness
God is trying to form; we're asked to collaborate
with grace...

...Spirit needs a container to pour itself into.
Grace needs an arena in which to incarnate.

~Sue Monk Kidd

 

Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to lived them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without knowing it, live along some distant day into the answers.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Lake
Snowy Forest

 

For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and know its inexplicable agony, their return from the upward out of hell's black depths and at last emerging into what he saw as "the shining world".

~William Styron

Where can I go from your spirit?
     Or where can I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
     if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
If I take the wings of the morning
     and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
     and your right hand shall hold me fast.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
     and the light around me become night,"
even the darkness is not dark to you;
     the night is as bright as the day,
     for darkness is as light to you.

~Psalm 139:7-12

Sunrise
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