Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

~ Henri Nouwen ~

what a day of witnessing in awe the mastery of grandmother spider weaving the web of life with exquisite precision… for so many turns around the sun, i’ve been seeding a network of grace, an aboveground railroad of  peace rooms all over the planet conducting us into peace with the destination being the journey, the peace pilgrimage we are all walking as pilgrims, poets on a journey…

today, in a surprising moment of deep conversation, suddenly, all the seeds that had been germinating for seventeen years blossomed at once and i looked out over the most beautiful field of sunflowers, a vibrant network of peacemakers smiling beatifically opening the one heart to be filled to overflowing with love real-eye-sing we are one tapestry each thread linked  to every other, each thread belonging to each other, each thread an instrument of peace integral for the symphony to be complete…