Ecstatic in the bounty of the rain today.
Its waters slow sinking into our earth,
A deep and boundless love offering,
A joyful pour of life.
Today, I am in gratitude for the rain.
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head
with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
-Langston Hughes
“How quick we are to find the rainbow,
before being thankful for the rain.”
-Dieter Uchtdorf
“Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for –
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world –
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant –
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
but grow wise
with such teachings
as these –
the untrimmable light
of the world,
the ocean’s shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?”-Mary Oliver
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody.”
-John Muir
This precious life… can we live it with passion, fullness, exuberance, gratitude and grace?
and at transition’s time move forward with that same passion, fullness, exuberance, gratitude and grace?
-William Blake
“For all that has been,
Thank you.
For all that is to come,
Yes!”
-Dag Hammarskjold
“Oh Wow, Oh Wow, Oh Wow!”
-Steve Jobs (his last words)
