If you inherently long for something, become it first.

If you want gardens, become the gardener.

If you want love, embody love.

If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation.

If you want peace, exude calmness.

If you want to fill your world with art, begin to paint.

If you want to be valued, respect your own time.

If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself.

This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.

~Victoria Erickson

simple ways toward all that feels sacred….

inquiry for today~ may you lean in with all the feels…..

how to forgive the heart

The emptiness

that you have been holding

for such a long season now;

that ache in your chest

that goes with you

night and day

in your sleeping,

your rising—

think of this

not as a mere hollow,

the void left from

the life that has leached out

of you.

Think of it like this:

as the space being prepared

for the seed.

Think of it

as your earth that dreams

of the branches

the seed contains.

Think of it

as your heart making ready

to welcome the nest

its branches will hold.

~Jan Richardson