“Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” — Robert H. Schuller

‘And in those moments where the sun is setting and the house is quiet and you are weary from the day, may you know that there is grace for you in that space, and no amount of heaviness or loneliness can take that away.

And because of that grace, you are free to slow down. You are free to breathe and rest, no matter the things not sorted out. There might be some mystery here and there might be longing, wondering, and waiting. But there will also be boundless peace that goes beyond any understanding, running wild like a river through everything, no matter how heavy these moments feel.

So rest easy, when everything is approaching. Tomorrow is surely coming, but in the hours in between, you are free to rest till then.

~ Morgan Harper Nichols

Art: Julie Horner
Julie Horner Art

Incredible shot by National Geographic Award Winner 🏆📸

“Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.”

Pyrrhuloxia

The pyrrhuloxia is a member of the cardinal family that has a range that just reaches into the United States in the states of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. It is very similar in appearance to the more common red (or Northern) cardinal, but has an overall gray coloration with a red face (males) and red crest. This beautiful male was found and followed through the Sonoran Desert in Tucson, Arizona on a hot spring morning.

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The Fairy Pools of Isle of Skye, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Gentleness isn’t a sign of weakness—it’s proof that your strength is rooted in compassion. It’s the choice to lift others up, not tear them down.

-Etheric Echoes

Art: Etheric Echoes

"The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.
How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I’ll bend toward cynicism and despair.
If I have only gratitude, I’ll become saccharine and won’t develop much compassion for other people’s suffering.
Grief keeps the heart fluid and soft, which helps make compassion possible."

~Francis Weller

Fairy Glen, Isle of Skye - Scotland

I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.

-Yeats

There is a lovely idea in the Celtic tradition that if you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times.

In the kingdom of love there is no competition, there is no possessiveness or control.

The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

Author | John O'Donohue