Silent offering
Yesterday morning, I was at my kitchen bench, quietly preparing breakfast.
Looking out the window, I spotted a rainbow forming.
Its beauty calling to me to stop and enjoy its silent offering…which I did.
Silent offering;
hearing the call beneath the noise -
these sweet communions.
Thich Nhat Hanh quote for further reflection:
“We spend a lot of time searching for happiness when the world around us is full of wonder...
To be alive and to walk on the earth is a miracle, yet most of us are running as if there were a better place to go...
Beauty calls to us every day, every hour, but we are rarely in a position to listen....
The essential condition for us to hear the call of beauty and respond to it is silence...
If we do not have silence within ourselves – if our mind, our body, is filled with noise
we cannot hear that call. ..”
The Gift of Silence -Thich Nhat Hanh