Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

This moment

spring leaves, one morning en route for Moissac

"We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand,
and melting like a snowflake."
~Sir Francis Bacon

One of the 'lessons' for me on the Camino was that you could spend time 
thinking about your sore feet or other body woes 
or you could just accept them, and instead notice 
and be thankful
and there were always so many things to notice and be thankful for
now, in the present moment.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

patience


“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote found on Picturing God website

Saturday, June 12, 2010

A doorway into thanks


"this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks,
and a silence in which another voice may speak."

from "Praying" - a poem by Mary Oliver

Maybe if anything 'sums up' the Camino for me
this phrase from Mary Oliver
~about thanks and silence~
does...

Friday, June 11, 2010

Love

On the road out of Estaing

“The things that we love tell us what we are.”

~St Thomas Aquinas