Wednesday, January 18, 2012

big picture details

this is one of those days that i wished i painted.

because this day has been a canvas already flooded with too much colour for one heart to bear.

it took a distant voice down a telephone to soothe a frazzled soul like mine when batteries stop working and computers become electronic nightmares. when the sweet woman with the tender voice soothed the tears of this flustered pregnant woman, i felt a embrace from Heaven.

this entire day, these few hours that i have been awake from a sleep of strange dreams and tangled thoughts, i have had a reminder that it's okay to focus on the little lines instead of the bold strokes for a change.

because it's hard to see the forest for the trees and the trees for the leaves and the veins for all the big picture being pressing against our noses.

and sometimes we need to look past the image in the stained glass window and let the colours swirl over skin.

because it's not always about do.
:: it's about be :: 

and even He whispers of the simple things, like love and hope and grace and brave. do we forget that He knows, that He lived like us and stepped in our path? that He wrote the story and already has the ending etched on His palms?

most of all
let love be your guide

and so i'm not looking at my computer with the broken battery that i cannot unplug for lack of power. i'm looking at the pools of glory in the wood between my worlds of chaos and Light.

and more moments of barefoot wading, and sacred moments of colour and peace.



5 comments:

  1. "let the colours swirl over skin" - Yes - get out of my head, the 'right way' forgotten, and move back into my skin. How often, too often, I miss the opportunity of life reflecting off flesh, revealed through my skin.
    Thank you Rachel

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  2. Beautiful and very evocative. The metaphor works ever so well.

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  3. it's hard to see the forest for the trees and the trees for the leaves and the veins for all the big picture being pressing against our noses.

    love these lines. love the way the spirit moves your writing. praying you find peace and that you find time to paint, friend. xo

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    1. living on a busted computer myself...and the doing and being...i am right with you there rachel....some really good stuff here and well writ...

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I look at you and see all the ways a soul can bruise, and I wish I could sink my hands into your flesh and light lanterns along your spine so you know there's nothing but light when I see you. :: Shinji Moon