For a penguin, a nest of rocks is a comfortable bed, and the perfect place to raise a family.
What is your ideal habitat, the place where you can both rest and grow?
To Die, and so to Grow
“so long as you haven’t experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.”
–Goethe
How have you grown through allowing something in your life to die?
Made of Mud
Nothing could be plainer than a brick, a baked slab of clay mud. But that same mud is also the basis for elaborate flowered decoration. For that matter, in the Hebrew story of Genesis it is the material from which human beings are made.
What wonderful thing have you made from the plainest building blocks?
Magenta
Maybe you’d call it fuchsia or hot pink or even scarlet. One way or another, this flower in its magenta dress with the lemon yellow trim is eye-popping. It might not be the kind of color you’d wear to work every day, but don’t you love the way it unfolds its brilliance without shame or need to diminish its boldness?
What will you do today to let your light shine – even if someone might think you’re a little over the top?
Beauty in the Ruins
Life persists, even in the bombed-out rubble, after the hurricane, in the midst of betrayal or illness or loss. Always something manages to grow and thrive and bring a shocking beauty to the devastated scene.
When have you found beauty or new life in the midst of destruction?