From: Gratefulness.org
Only when we’re brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
BRENÉ BROWN
PHOTO BY STEVE HALAMA
From: Gratefulness.org
Only when we’re brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
BRENÉ BROWN
PHOTO BY STEVE HALAMA
In Response To:
Ragtag Daily Prompt – Movement
Word Of The Day Challenge – Claim
Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Champion – February 18, 2021 – Go where the prompt leads you and publish a post on your own blog that responds to the prompt. It can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. Please keep it family friendly. Prompts close 7 days from the close of my post.
It all begins with one soul
beatdown, broken, hopeless
hated, unwanted, abandoned
unloved, silently dying within
down in the valley’s darkness
drowning in its own tears
unspoken words of the heart
that only Love can hear and
give answer to their call…
Movement of the soul begins
a rising to the mountain top
these souls are the unnoticed
for they do not lay claim for themselves
they are the ones whose wings cannot be seen
lighthouses whose beam of Light shines
bright through the darkest storm
whose peace is undisturbable, their
forgiveness, compassion, and love are
poured out unconditionally upon others
even for the ones that destroyed them…
They walk silently upon this earth
in humble gratitude for the Love that
breathed Life into their death…they are God’s
Champions Of Grace.
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Photo Courtesy of Pinterest
In Response To:
Ragtag Daily Prompt – RDP Thursday – Tiptoe
Word Of The Day Challenge – Gloomy
V.J.’s Weekly Challenge – Repercussions
Sadje’s What Do You See #67 – Photo prompt
When my heart becomes
gloomy
my first instinct is to
tiptoe
around the issue and
pretend
that all is a well and good
facade
but I have painfully learned the
repercussions
of avoidance the darkness shall
reign
leaving my heart
imprisoned
unable to walk into the
Light
if I do not embrace it in
Love
that turns the darkness into
Sunshine
and repetitive foolish choices into
Wisdom
~ * ~
From: Gratefulness.org
Noticing that everything is interconnected, that love and light exist amid the darkness, and that not all is lost can nourish us on our paths.
ROSE ZONETTI
In Response To:
Eugi’s Causerie I Weekly Prompt – Transition – August 24, 2020. Go where the prompt leads you and publish a post on your own blog that responds to the prompt. It can be any variation of the prompt and/or image. Please keep it family friendly. Prompts close 7 days from the close of my post.
V.J’s Weekly Challenge #110 – Smell – What is your relationship to smell? (Don’t tell me you didn’t know this was coming, lol.). Look forward to reading your responses. Just create a post and link back here. All welcome.
Madness of nation’s darkness
moments of light
few and far between
soul’s embitterment
taste intolerable
attempting to recall
memories of sweet
failure brings surrender
powerlessness cloaks eyes
exhale…inhale…
smell transition’s aroma
just as nature’s
change of season
a promise to trust
good shall rise up and
shine like Autumn’s brilliance
laying to rest
death’s shadows
upon humanity.
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Photo Courtesy of Pinterest
From: Gratefulness.org
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
CORITA KENT
(PHOTO BY AARON BURDEN)
From: Gratefulness.org
In the midst of gathering darkness, light becomes more evident.
BONNIE BOSTROM
(PHOTO BY ANTON DARIUS)
From: Gratefulness.org
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
JOAN CHITTISTER
From: Gratefulness.org
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being!
HAFIZ
(PHOTO BY JEFF COLLINS)
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