Life-force

Presence of grace…and stardust.

July 18, 2017

Love, friendship, creativity, pain, and loss are agents of grace, as are surprise, beauty, grief, and wonder.

When the soul expresses itself, we experience enlivened arcs of grace in which we feel the force of life that runs through everything. Anything that moves us to carry our soul out into the world is a catalyst of grace. In this way, love, friendship, creativity, pain, and loss are agents of grace. And while experience wears us down to what’s essential so the soul can stop being encased, it also takes daily effort to let our soul out and an open heart to the let the world in, so we can spark ourselves alive and finally be of use.

Like it or not, we’re opened by the hard, sweet journey of being human, until we’re sparked and work into a gateway for life-force.

The One Life We’re Given, by Mark Nepo 

A light from within…

May 2, 2017

‘As the sun spilled over the face of the [tree], I realized that just as gravity will always pull things to the Earth’s center, the life-force of the Universe will always emanate from its center into the world.’

-Mark Nepo