Tag: Wendell Berry

The Truth in Our Journey.

My friends, this morning I’d like to share one of my favorite passages  from author, Wendell Berry who writes:

“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles,

no matter how long,

but only by a spiritual journey,

a journey of one inch,

very arduous and humbling and joyful,

by which we arrive at the ground at our feet,

and learn to be at home.”

The search for truth is an endeavor universally shared. We seek to understand, to lend greater meaning…to find purpose within our despair.

And for as long back as we can remember, we’ve shared our journey with countless others; travelers bound by a common thread. Yet, somehow always knowing – that which we seek, is already here.

The light can either illuminate or detract; a life constrained by edges, or one of boundless hue. The infinite is in the finite of every instant; released by the question and emboldened through courage.

In peace, sweet friends…

Namaste ❣️

Where the Wild Things Lay.

What is your longer term intention, my loves? Is it peace, is it love – or, simply the cherishing of moments in which happiness has graced us with her presence?

So often our days are filled with temporary obligations – take out the trash, walk the dog, make sure all the bills get paid. In time, it becomes our ‘cadence’ – marking a pace louder than any heart might share.

In doing so, our spiritual direction becomes clouded; we lose the context of our being.

“When despair for the world grows in me,” shares Wendell Berry, “and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things…I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

He knew what so many have difficulty expressing; that no matter the difficulty our direction is clear. We endeavor for the purpose of life’s much higher things; we strive for a peace within.

To lie amidst the wild things, to watch the grasses grow. And, without concern for the ‘how’ or ‘why’; rather, simply for the cause of being.

In peace…

Namaste ❤️