I love this journeying you're embarking on and really relish enjoying it as 'observer' rather than participant - much as I love this 'Holy Thorn', Bee.
I love this invitation. I have been listening with Wild Rose and your offering has inspired me to cultivate a devotion with her, to create communion everyday in some way as I learn with what she is guiding me INTO this year. 💞
Lovely as always my friend. Last Friday, the side of our road was brutally cut and sprayed by the city. Before this it had been absolutely overflowing with wildflowers along the roadway. I have been quite down since then watching as it all turns a horrific dead brown. I walked in the forest today just to see life again. When will they learn?
Hello, dear Mr Key. I am so, so sorry to hear this. It is the same here and I am endlessly having to gather up my heart to face the day. Yesterday, our neighbours' were blocking up the hole where starlings nest in their roof each year and I got a taxi to work (which is not a great thing I know) because I felt that, if I saw another roadside verge mowed after that, I wouldn't be able to cope at all.
I'm so glad that you have somewhere you can go to heal your heart. These are hugely difficult times for anyone with eyes to see. I will never understand why we all can't. I have lost hope entirely, and yet I am still full of hope because I believe in miracles. One day I will write about imaginal cells here and about the firefly resistance, which we talk a lot about in the Little Church of Love of the World that I facilitate. All is not lost!
I have recently been reading 'Christ of the Celts' by J. Philip Newell and highly recommend it for thinking about the costly witness of loving Creation. He points out that there have never been so many of us connecting deeply with the Earth, even though there is so much that is harming her. We have to believe that we were made for these times, but it certainly isn't easy.
No, it certainly isn’t easy to bear witness to the destruction of our only home. To feel the weight of our animal and plant kin pleading for a chance at life…when so many just can’t be bothered and want only a lifeless “tidy” lawn. It can make one want to scream. I pray that one day everyone will indeed see that coexistence is our only way forward. I am quite fascinated by the idea that we were chosen by the Creator for these trying times. I shall surely take a look at that book, thank you for the recommendation. X
I love this journeying you're embarking on and really relish enjoying it as 'observer' rather than participant - much as I love this 'Holy Thorn', Bee.
Gosh, yes! It's lovely to just lean back and observe. That can be a magical journey in itself x
I love this invitation. I have been listening with Wild Rose and your offering has inspired me to cultivate a devotion with her, to create communion everyday in some way as I learn with what she is guiding me INTO this year. 💞
Lovely as always my friend. Last Friday, the side of our road was brutally cut and sprayed by the city. Before this it had been absolutely overflowing with wildflowers along the roadway. I have been quite down since then watching as it all turns a horrific dead brown. I walked in the forest today just to see life again. When will they learn?
Hello, dear Mr Key. I am so, so sorry to hear this. It is the same here and I am endlessly having to gather up my heart to face the day. Yesterday, our neighbours' were blocking up the hole where starlings nest in their roof each year and I got a taxi to work (which is not a great thing I know) because I felt that, if I saw another roadside verge mowed after that, I wouldn't be able to cope at all.
I'm so glad that you have somewhere you can go to heal your heart. These are hugely difficult times for anyone with eyes to see. I will never understand why we all can't. I have lost hope entirely, and yet I am still full of hope because I believe in miracles. One day I will write about imaginal cells here and about the firefly resistance, which we talk a lot about in the Little Church of Love of the World that I facilitate. All is not lost!
I have recently been reading 'Christ of the Celts' by J. Philip Newell and highly recommend it for thinking about the costly witness of loving Creation. He points out that there have never been so many of us connecting deeply with the Earth, even though there is so much that is harming her. We have to believe that we were made for these times, but it certainly isn't easy.
No, it certainly isn’t easy to bear witness to the destruction of our only home. To feel the weight of our animal and plant kin pleading for a chance at life…when so many just can’t be bothered and want only a lifeless “tidy” lawn. It can make one want to scream. I pray that one day everyone will indeed see that coexistence is our only way forward. I am quite fascinated by the idea that we were chosen by the Creator for these trying times. I shall surely take a look at that book, thank you for the recommendation. X