BY RASHANI RÉA There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy and a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words through which we pass …
Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursdays: Blessings
BY CARRIE NEWCOMER May you wake with a sense of play, An exultation of the possible. May you rest without guilt, Satisfied at the end of a day well done. May all the rough edges be smoothed, If to smooth is to heal, And the edges be left rough, When the unpolished is more true And infinitely more …
Thankful Thursdays: A Word is Dead When it is Said
BY EMILY DICKINSON A WORD is dead When it is said __Some say. I say it just Begins to live __That day. …
Thankful Thursdays: The Way It Is
BY WILLIAM STAFFORD There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or …
Thankful Thursdays: Our Real Work
BY WENDELL BERRY It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. …