“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. “ ― Ralph Waldo Emerson,

Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand…

Moments which require our attention and care—like making the bed and washing the dishes—are much more likely to take us to where we hope to go.

“When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light God Appears & God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day”

William Blake, the last lines of Auguries of Innocence

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.”. – Paulo Coelho.

“Walker, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more.

Walker, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

Walking you make the road, and turning to look behind

you see the path you never again will step upon.

Walker, there is no road, only foam trails on the sea.”

Antonio Machado, Walker

“Speak words of hope. Be human in this most inhuman of ages. Guard the image of one another; for it is the image of God.” Thomas Merton, from Raids on the Unspeakable

1. Look at beautiful things

2. Water plants

3. Eat good food

We are invited, at least a moment, to enter a first century experience and a series of prayers to contextualize pain and suffering—while bringing us into the presence of God.

May the imagination of poets guide not only our imagination; but our ability to welcome more people, places, and things as spiritual gifts to be cared for.