Insights

a contemplative poem about needing time and giving ourselves permission to sit with our thoughts and letting them move in the direction and pace they need in order to provide clarity and peace. Forcing our thoughts to take a particular direction to solve something may limit our perspective on a situation.

a contemplative poem about the risk of remaining stubborn or stuck in our ways with lazy or restrictive thinking. This takes away the opportunity to be reformed, altered, transformed. We need to seek and let in new perspectives and challenges in anticipation that they will change us.

a contemplative poem about making many superficial judgements about others when we don't see past the big bright aspects of the personality they choose to share. The richness of who they really are takes time to be revealed.

a contemplative poem about how we are unaware of what lives in our shadow thoughts. We need new information and perspectives in order to shine light on them and reveal that they are not as scary or unconquerable as they first appear.

a contemplative poem about having many distractions; most of which we've convinced ourselves are important and necessary. But, we can miss precious moments that help to ground us and can bring peace and connection. Taking moments are investments in our well being.

a contemplative poem about how we are not placed on this earth, in our communities, to take. We all have something to offer and we need to be brave enough to sow it, because it can and does become part of something bigger that can affect more than just us.

a contemplative poem about how each of our actions and decisions result in consequences - ripples in our days - which are not inherently negative but require time to assess what we see. That is wisdom and how we develop discernment

a contemplative poem about looking backward with gratitude to those who came before; whose character, determination and choices have influenced who and where we are today.

a contemplative poem about being a creation of God and the challenge to take the time to experience, with wonder, other aspects of His creation - even those that may be hidden in the shadows. It is a call to action to stay curious and to take interest in really seeing.

a contemplative poem about acknowledging those events in our past, fragrant or thorny, that marked us. Although helping to shape us, we need to let them go - lay them down - and move forward with appreciation of the character they created in us.

a contemplative poem about a habitual desire for motion. That like a game of PacMan, we can exist in the stress of the in-between of running from and running to.

a contemplative poem about taking the time you need before committing yourself, your time, or your resources to something or someone. There is no shame in saying no, and there is no hurry to decide; so try to take what you need to make an informed decision about your commitments.

a contemplative poem about seeking time in nature; to stay in it long enough to become absorbed by it and within it's beauty. The trick is to leave it as we find it, yet to be open to the likelihood of being changed by it.

a contemplative poem about needing stillness and quiet and time without distraction and external noise so that we can listen and hear ourselves and The Voice inside us that is helping to guide our becoming.

a contemplative poem that uses scrabble as an analogy where we are called to take what is scattered before us and make sense of it...to take the chaos and disorder and line it up into something meaningful. We can be lazy and put in little effort or we can take some time and develop the pieces into something that counts.

a contemplative poem that challenges our definition of what it means to be a hero. Often, people who live quiet determined lives of integrity and wisdom are not given this title, yet their lives and relationships speak to their strength of character and commitment.

A poem about being authentic and allowing others to see and treasure the real you and in doing so, inspiring them to do the same; resulting in a true and truthful connection with another person