What Is Calling You?

What in your life is calling you,
When all the noise is silenced,
The meetings adjourned...
The lists laid aside,
And the Wild Iris blooms
By itself
In the dark forest...
What still pulls on your soul?
~Rumi

A Blessing

May God bless you with 

discomfort at easy answers,

half truths,

and superficial relationships, 

so that you may live deep within your heart. 

May God bless you with 

anger at injustice, 

oppression, 

and exploitation of people, 

so that you may work 

for justice, freedom, and peace. 

May God bless you with 

tears to shed 

for those who suffer from

pain, 

rejection, 

starvation, 

and war, 

so that you may reach out your hand 

to comfort them 

and to turn their pain into joy. 

And may God bless you with 

enough foolishness to believe that you 

can make a difference in this world, 

so that you can do 

what others claim cannot be done.

~ unknown

Through The Wilderness

We do not receive wisdom,

we must discover it for ourselves,

after a journey through the wilderness

- which no one else can make for us,

which no one can spare us, 

for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last 

to regard the world.

The lives that you admire, 

the attitudes that seem noble to you, 

have not been shaped by a schoolmaster. 

They represent a struggle and a victory. 

 ~Marcel Proust

The Only News I Know - Happy New Year

The Only News I know
Is Bulletins all Day
From Immortality.

The Only Shows I see—
Tomorrow and Today—
Perchance Eternity—

The Only One I meet
Is God—The Only Street—
Existence—This traversed

If Other News there be—
Or Admirable Show—
I'll tell it You—

~Emily Dickinson