A Poem/Prayer From Gratefulness.org

Even Deeper Roots in Love

"You, from whom we come And to whom we go,
Unchanging love,
You give us time for change and growth
In this time of great change in my life,
please, give me courage to change and grow
and cheerfulness amidst growing-pain.
Let me take ever deeper roots in love
Make me faithful without clinging
And let me remain faithful in letting go.
Into your hands I lay my life
And the lives of all whom I love.
Amen."

Br. David Steindl-Rast , OSB

https://gratefulness.org

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Hope

 by Rebecca Solnit 

REAL HOPE, NOT FAKE HOPE

Rebecca Solnit writes: "I use the term hope because it navigates a way
forward between the false certainties of optimism and of pessimism, and
the complacency or passivity that goes with both.

"Optimism assumes that all will go well without our effort; pessimism
assumes it’s all irredeemable; both let us stay home and do nothing.

"Hope for me has meant a sense that the future is unpredictable, and that
we don’t actually know what will happen, but know we may be able write
it ourselves.

"Hope is a belief that what we do might matter, an understanding that the
future is not yet written. It’s informed, astute open-mindedness about
what can happen and what role we may play in it.

"Hope looks forward, but it draws its energies from the past, from
knowing histories, including our victories, and their complexities and
imperfections.

"It means not being the perfect that is the enemy of the good, not
snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, not assuming you know what
will happen when the future is unwritten, and part of what happens is
up to us."

Read Rebecca Solnit's essay: https://tinyurl.com/y38m3sbu

and this poem for the poetry portion of my eddy.

A Beehive that landed in my Moms Backyard shortly before she left this earthly plane





 OPTIMISM
by Jane Hirshfield

More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam
returns over and over to the same shape,
but the sinuous tenacity of a tree:
finding the light newly blocked on one side,
it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true.
But out of such persistence arose
turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs --
all this resinous, unretractable earth.


Thanks again RB!
and Moi being a Double Libra-Scorpio Rising loves this:

 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Snatching the eternal out of the desperately
fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence." Playwright
Tennessee Williams said that, and now I'm conveying his insight to
you—just in time for you to dramatically embody it. According to my
astrological analysis, you now have more power than usual to accomplish
this magic trick: to create something permanent in the midst of the
transitory; to make an indelible mark on a process that has previously
been characterized by restless permutations; to initiate a bold move that
you will forever remember and be remembered for.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the course of his 73 years on the planet,
Scorpio author Paul Valéry (1871–1945) wrote more than 20 books.
But between the ages of 25 and 45, he passed through a phase he called
the "great silence." During that time, he quit writing and published
nothing. Afterwards, he returned to his life's work and was nominated
12 times for a Nobel Prize. Although your own version of a great silence
is less extreme than his, I'm happy to announce that you will emerge
from it sooner than you imagine.
 

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