The way you look at things is not simply a private matter. Your outlook actually and concretely affects what goes on. When you give in to helplessness, you collude with despair and add to it. When you take back your power and choose to see the possibilities for healing and transformation, your creativity awakens and flows to become an active force of renewal and encouragement in the world.
In this way, even in your own hidden life, you can become a powerful agent of transformation in a broken, darkened world. There is a huge force field that opens when intention focuses and directs itself toward transformation.
--John O’Donohue,
Benedictus – To Bless the Space Between Us
Image source: Horace Pippin, Holy Mountain III (1945). Look carefully at this remarkable painting. It contains some very unsettling elements. Yet it is God’s holy mountain that the artist chose to foreground. Read more here: https://artandtheology.org/2017/01/16/mlk-pippin-and-the-holy-mountain/
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