While I was rearranging shelves of books yesterday, I came across my copy of Alice Walker’s We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness.
I flipped to a dog-eared page to see what wisdom had caught my attention during an earlier read. I’m so glad I marked this because it is so good. Thought I’d share it with you today, as you head into a brand new, spectacular week:
“I have experienced many difficulties and hardships in my life and yet despair is a state in which I rarely remain for long. This is largely because despair cannot share the same place as wonder, and it is wonder that I have had from childhood, and in abundance. From the moment I saw that a plum grew out of a brown-colored, dry-looking branch, and a watermelon came from a green stem attached to a plant that was rooted in the dark earth, “heaven” as described by the pastor of our church (somewhere beyond earth) became irrelevant. I was already in the only heaven that mattered to me, and I knew it.
This sense of the magic of Nature has encouraged all of my environmental understanding and activism. It is the reason I believe all our children, whether two years old of forty, should be encouraged to look, really look, at what they are seeing every day: incredible improbabilities, miracles – plums, watermelons, tulips, turnips – that are, on our planet, that radiant blue orb, exceedingly ordinary, though obviously divine.”
Thoughts? Feelings? Stuff to celebrate? Do tell!
This picture is so 'simple', yet so profoundly 'Beautiful'. You've shared enought LOVE to last all week. wonderful!!
whoa! that picture! those words! swooning over here!
What a great post. I love this quote as it reflects much of my own feeling about the beauty all around us: "This is largely because despair cannot share the same place as wonder". I love seeing it all, every day.
i kinda dig this.
peace.
I totally agree!!!
I loved it.
I have a Facebook Group dedicated to this. Please see Project Heaven on Earth.
martin