The best thing you will ever do happens when your whole heart believes you have nothing to lose.
Art, love, work, philosophy, serviceā¦ they all beg you to be free.
The message the Divine has been shouting through creation is this:
Good news: you really have nothing to lose. Show us who you are. Reveal your heart.
Bear your fruit.
All life starts within and ripples through the universe and back to us in loving color
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.
Mechtild of Magdeburg
Images:
Aurora Borealis as seen in Florida last night. This image over-emphasizes the color I could see with the naked eye (because it is a long exposure) and under-emphasizes the structure of the streaks and dancing ābrushwork.ā The image is mostly stars (Ursa Major) and a red glow.
The next image features the constellation Scorpio over the horizon beyond the trees surrounding my home.
The next image is container full of blackberries I gathered yesterday outside my home. They carry a special message in a time of hope and abundance.
The final image is an embroidery made by my daughter, Annabelle, and given to me. It is a giant green light of many shades with sparkles in it and a person standing in front of it and watching it.
All of these images were taken yesterday. Annabelle did not know we would see the Aurora Borealis last night and had made this, her first embroidery project, for an entirely different reason.
Needless to say, yesterday was a lovely day.
I was delighted that my first experience of the Aurora was seen in the constellation of the Great Bear who is revealing herself in so many ways.
The best thing you will ever do happens when your whole heart believes you have nothing to lose.