Greetings and warm wishes as we pass through the Spring and Autumn equinox depending on where you live on this beautiful planet. Equinox – a time when day and night are the closest to equivalent in length. This seems an apt symbol for our March Day of Silence where we can take some moments as they occur for each one to notice the rhythms of light and dark that flow throughout our lives. Living in flux and finding a place of quiet acceptance and simple embrace of the situations that come to us from out of the eastern sunrise seems to be the task at hand.
May your practice of silence give you strength and sustenance for all that makes its way to your doorstep to be held, worked with and lived into. We are held in an infinite web of support and compassion.
Blessings,
Peri and Barbara
A Prayer
Let me do my work each day;
and if the darkened hours
of despair overcome me, may I
not forget the strength
that comforted me in the
desolation of other times.
May I still remember the bright
hours that found me walking
over the silent hills of my
childhood, or dreaming on the
margin of a quiet river,
when a light glowed within me,
and I promised my early God
to have courage amid the
tempests of the changing years.
Spare me from bitterness
and from the sharp passions of
unguarded moments. May
I not forget that poverty and
riches are of the spirit.
Though the world knows me not,
may my thoughts and actions
be such as shall keep me friendly
with myself.
Lift up my eyes
from the earth, and let me not
forget the uses of the stars.
Forbid that I should judge others
lest I condemn myself.
Let me not follow the clamor of
the world, but walk calmly
in my path.
Give me a few friends
who will love me for what
I am; and keep ever burning
before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope.
And though age and infirmity
overtake me, and I come not within
sight of the castle of my dreams,
teach me still to be thankful
for life, and for time's olden
memories that are good and
sweet; and may the evening's
twilight find me gentle still.
~ Max Ehrmann ~
(The Desiderata of Happiness)