There is nothing to fear in the act of beginning. More often than not it knows the journey ahead better than we ever could. Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginning might be ripening. There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different. I have never seen anyone take a risk for growth that was not rewarded a thousand times over.
~John O’Donohue

may I remember this great unfolding…

inquiry for today~ there is a new hope…..

how we want to be…

At first, I thought we were

supposed to chase things,

but no one taught us what

to do if we caught them.

When broken, I wasn’t sure

if I was to close the break

or keep on opening.

Then, I thought, I’ll build

a home in which all that I

love can live.

But loving and losing, and

dying and coming back, I

came to love the world and

all I couldn’t see. It was more

than any house could hold.

That led me here, by the

river, where I stand like a

tree, drinking from the earth

and reaching for the sky, let-

ting small things nest in me.

~Mark Nepo