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 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 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 that assures each of us that we are created on purpose and for a purpose. We may feel fragile and uncertain in our direction sometimes, but we must trust the creator of the wind which carries us.

a contemplative poem about how our reaction to a frustrating situation can be one of resistance - of wanting to shape the moment into something else. Instead, we can adjust ourselves within that situation and slowly let our strong feelings deflate to have the room to deal with and potentially view it in a calmer more logical way.

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.

This is a contemplative poem to recognize the meaning of Easter; the promise of a light to follow and love that promises to ease the heaviness of what we try to carry alone.

A poem about setting aside time to slow it all down in order to recognize where we are at, what we need, and to focus on all the good possibilities that are before us