Powerful Tweets & Deeper Reflection

I love sharing words of hope, encouragement, and healing that find their way to me and then have their way with you. When you pin powerful tweets and quotes here, it expands their potential to influence…thanks for sharing them. Today’s collection may be heavier than the usual suspects. So much of Pinterest-y quote inspiration is cute, snarky, immature or sarcastic, and I have contributed my fair share. I respect your time and discernment when the content is better suited for a mature audience. 🙂 I hope you will discover mystery to heal your soul right where you are.

Powerful Tweets & Quotes for Deeper Reflection

Keep Calm and Carry a Song

Initially I titled this “Oh, Look, More Angst.” I want to be transparent and let you know that right where I am, I’m not great. I’m in our desert home, wobbly, recovering from a virus, and more lost than found. Unable to write a word for weeks. Then the truth of these words began to resonate at my core as a deep comfort: I AM NOT AT ALL SPECIAL.

Let’s face it, we all suffer. We rise then fall again. Please hear and see me. I am not at all special, and I am also an artist at work. My work is just like yours, to bring blessing, not harm. My work is to use my gifts to be purposeful, to love, to rest, to play, to experience beauty and to live from deeply held values.

My work does not require peerless health or perfection of mind. The work does not require me to exhaust my resources, abandon myself, cling to a cause, or reject passion. But I must consent to the work.

My work demands I open my senses fully, let go of violence, and change my mind often. Non-dual thinking and wild creativity help. Allowing reality to be reality helps. But grace helps most of all so I seek it.

My work teaches me to see as God sees; compels me to infuse uncommon thanksgiving into the richness of my prayer life. I can be a very slowwwww learner. But sister, I can pray.

The work finds me listening for the Voice of Love and quieting to hear its melody. Harmonies always arise. Without intention, I will choose the solo, choose unwisely, and in fear and trembling forget the lyrics. Every new day brings a new score and a new chance to wander from or enter the music.

I listen, pray, and practice stillness as someone not special. I am not God, and oh, the sweet relief to be in this chorus of unspecial angels.

A relief to not keep the sun and moon just so in the sky. A relief to sing. I see beauty where the unforever fades and withers. Where in time and death, beauty is absorbed into the whole of forever.

Wholly interdependent. Wholly free. Wholly droplets in a beautiful sea.

You may say we are as special as snowflakes. Born on this day with this body, this DNA. A complex mix of ego, drive, knowledge, and experiences. But my true self is made of lovesongs, longing, and light like yours.

And all I really want is to work each day with the assurance that even when I’m getting it wrong, I’m getting somewhere. Not with proficient singing or skilled swimming to reach some perfect, distant shore. But with surrender. With my little harmonies. With new eyes.

This work is the holy work of rest, liberation, and illumination of heaven here NOW. Of earth as it is in heaven, right where we are.

Peace to you right where you are.

-michele

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