5 minutes of peace...

Sometimes the only way to face a raging storm is to sit down in the middle of it, let the thunder shatter you to pieces and the rain pour down over you, cleansing you from the inside out...and when the storm finally passes you can take the light that finds its way in through the cracks and shine it on the pieces you want to pick up, and let everything else go... let the rain water wash it all away and bath yourself in the newly found ray of hope...

Some other rays of hope for times like these...


"Be still, and know that I am God..."

/Psalm 46:10/

And one of my favourites...

"I said: what about my eyes?
God said: keep them on the road.
I said: what about my passion?
God said: keep it burning.
I said: what about my heart?
God said: tell me what you hold inside it.
I said: pain and sorrow.
God said: ....Stay with it. The wound is where the Light enters you."

/Rumi/

And one more to remind us of the power of gratitude towards simple things...

Thankful

         for the day
when light falls
         like a gift
the angle of each hour
         shines like a blessing
quiet minutes
         become an offering
of limitless possibilities
         like that of enormous Love

/Eve Jackson from Poems in the Waiting Room issue 75/