A Nod From God
She Will Not Be Quiet: A (mostly unedited) daily writing practice
Day #70 of daily (mostly unedited) writing/sharing.
A Nod from God
It's Thursday again and I'm so tired. I don't want to write sentences in a straight little line, don't want to be appropriate, orderly or likable. Rather, I want to tell the truth. Tell you that my mother-in-law's heart is failing, and I love her so much, we do not share blood, but, until I met her 28 years ago, I knew nothing about unconditional, motherly love. I want to tell you this as much as I want to invite you to breathe in the scent of lilac with me, sit here in the afternoon light, shoes kicked off, plan-less and present, moments to consider what truly matters. I want these words to feel like a nod from God, like permission to be a forest— messy, unruly, wild, free. Or like a river, flowing, always, toward sea. We were never meant to walk in a straight little line, never meant to tidy ourselves up, never meant to compare our unique, incomparable selves to any other. Never meant to hide our holes or our holy. I was made just right. And so were you. It is Thursday again and I am so tired. Please, can we lay it all down and simply rest together?
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Love, Love, Love
Philip Quigley
If love is a force that moves the universe, then perhaps there is nothing truer than what we feel: a connection that transcends the boundaries of time and space. The cosmos, in all its vastness, with the silent dance of the stars and the gravity that keeps them on their course, is nothing more than a reflection of who we are. Perhaps, as Rainer Maria Rilke said, “love is the way for the eternal to manifest itself in us.” And, looking at each other, I feel that we are part of that eternal; scattered fragments that have been attracted by a force that not even the stars can define In this endless flow of existence, I feel that our brief relationship is not just the meeting of two people, but the intersection of cosmic energies that recognize each other. Perhaps, as quantum physics taught us, what appeared to be separate never really was. Like subatomic particles that can influence each other across immeasurable distances, our souls touch each other, influence each other, even if we cannot see or measure how. We are a reflection of the infinite interconnection that governs the universe. Uniting is nothing more than a manifestation of that invisible law that connects everything that exists