Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life
~S. D. Gordon
As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain
freefall, and float
into Creator Spirit’s deep embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding grace.
~Denise Levertov
It happens all the time. The illusion dies so something deeper can take its place. Romance serves its purposes. It’s a meditative state. It puts logic to sleep so that people can come together. Otherwise you guys probably wouldn’t risk it. Love is big. It’s a bright light in the universe.
And a bright light casts a big shadow.
~Barbara Hall {Character of God in Joan of Arcadia}
summer fade on Flickr.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
~A.A. Milne
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
~Reinhold Niebuhr
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
~Maya Angelou
I’ll tell you how the sun rose,
A ribbon at a time.
The steeples swam in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran.
The hills untied their bonnets,
The bobolinks begun.
Then I said softly to myself,
“That must have been the sun!”
But how he set, I know not.
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the whileTill when they reached the other side,
A dominie in gray
Put gently up the evening bars,
And led the flock away.
~Emily Dickinson
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