Joy... Your honesty about the winter of illness and the friction between duty and desire and the hermitage of the heart is so moving...You write the way I try to write... from the lived thing, from the body and the soil and what is actually in front of you... And God speaks through it... The pruned apple trees and the space left for light to enter... that is Lent in a single image. I am so glad you are outside again. Encouraged to hear the trapped bird is loosening... stretching those wings. And so grateful you are here walking this road with us. You and your beloved husband are in my prayers. Here is to the seasonal reset... and the brave camellia already showing its joyous pinkness. God Bless... Thérèse ✠
Thank you, Thérèse, for this lovely comment, the encouragement you’ve offered me, the restacks and referrals, and for sharing an excerpt from my post. Decades spent living with chronic illness have definitely been challenging but also enlightening.
I’m so grateful God encouraged me to embrace hope in the hard, opened my eyes to the beauty in the everyday, and attuned my mind and heart to sense sacred echoes in numerous ways.
These observations tend to get expressed mostly in the poetry I write and they weave their way into prose sometimes. Bless you for your prayers. I so appreciate them.
Thank you Joy for this lovely journey around your orchard and patio! Your spring flowers are surely beckoning to me also, as I await our later spring. Although today we did see one tiny crocus braving the way forward for his mates. I long to join him and you, beginning again with the new life of this season. Blessings and prayers for you and your beloved, dear friend.
Bettie, I think Spring decides when it wants individual flowers to spring to life. It happened to be an unseasonably warm day when I took that little ride around the site so it very much encouraged them to emerge and bathe in the light. Hopefully you will soon see similar sights to cheer your heart, dear friend. Thank you so much for your prayers! We’re praying for you too. Blessings to you and your beloved ones.
Joy... Your honesty about the winter of illness and the friction between duty and desire and the hermitage of the heart is so moving...You write the way I try to write... from the lived thing, from the body and the soil and what is actually in front of you... And God speaks through it... The pruned apple trees and the space left for light to enter... that is Lent in a single image. I am so glad you are outside again. Encouraged to hear the trapped bird is loosening... stretching those wings. And so grateful you are here walking this road with us. You and your beloved husband are in my prayers. Here is to the seasonal reset... and the brave camellia already showing its joyous pinkness. God Bless... Thérèse ✠
Thank you, Thérèse, for this lovely comment, the encouragement you’ve offered me, the restacks and referrals, and for sharing an excerpt from my post. Decades spent living with chronic illness have definitely been challenging but also enlightening.
I’m so grateful God encouraged me to embrace hope in the hard, opened my eyes to the beauty in the everyday, and attuned my mind and heart to sense sacred echoes in numerous ways.
These observations tend to get expressed mostly in the poetry I write and they weave their way into prose sometimes. Bless you for your prayers. I so appreciate them.
Thank you Joy for this lovely journey around your orchard and patio! Your spring flowers are surely beckoning to me also, as I await our later spring. Although today we did see one tiny crocus braving the way forward for his mates. I long to join him and you, beginning again with the new life of this season. Blessings and prayers for you and your beloved, dear friend.
Bettie, I think Spring decides when it wants individual flowers to spring to life. It happened to be an unseasonably warm day when I took that little ride around the site so it very much encouraged them to emerge and bathe in the light. Hopefully you will soon see similar sights to cheer your heart, dear friend. Thank you so much for your prayers! We’re praying for you too. Blessings to you and your beloved ones.
Beautiful!