Wen Redmond: Holiday Card

Showing posts with label Holiday Card. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Holiday Card. Show all posts

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Stillness in Winter’s Dream

“Come away from the din.

Come away to the quiet fields

Over which the great sky stretches

and where, between us and the stars

there, in the stillness

let us listen to the voice

that is spreading within us.”

Jerome K. Jerome

LOVE, PEACE AND LIGHT,

Wen

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Kahlil Gibran

A spiritual awakening is often found and developed in a wilderness. It can be a poem or a parable of a deep forest, a mountain meadow or a cactus-studded desert. The outdoor spirit of plein air refreshes and further enables the indoor studio chapel. Each new creative beginning is a confirmation of the simple truth of taking care. And while it may all appear to be self-indulgent and isolating, every thought, every stroke, every caress of the brush adds a small refreshment of meaning and purpose to our universe. "Work is love made visible."

Poem by Mary Oliver

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning

and spread it over the fields

and into the faces of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety –

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light –

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.