July Words of Courage: Rock Hopping Creek

ROCK HOPPING CREEK  

 ~Jack Winkle 
In Finding What You Didn't Lose, John Fox, 1995 

To where are you jumping today, and where will you land?

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This is our monthly offering of Words of Courage.  It is our hope that the words that you read and the questions you consider will en-Courage you to engage fully in your work in the world.

These "Words of Courage" contributed by Sue Jones, long time friend and CRNT facilitator.

July Image: Hello My Friend!

 

June Words of Courage: Summer Sailin'

A needle is such a small, brittle thing.  It is easily broken.  It can

hold but one fragile thread.  But if the needle is sharp, it can pierce

the coarsest cloth.  Ply the needle in and out of a canvas and with a
 
great length of thread one can make a sail to move a ship across

the ocean.                                                                                            

                                                                                                - Kathleen Kent      

What are your sharp skills?   

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This is our monthly offering of Words of Courage.  It is our hope that the words that you read and the questions you consider will en-Courage you to engage fully in your work in the world.  

These "Words of Courage" contributed by Donald Porter, long time friend and CRNT facilitator.

June Image: Golden Bouquets

 

 

 

What are you seeing everywhere you look? 

 

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Photo Mandala © Donna Bearden

 

These images and words are a monthly offering from Courage & Renewal - North Texas. It is our hope that they will provide a moment of refreshment, of reflection, of renewal - and will enable you to live and work more wholeheartedly.

 

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"Reconnecting Who You Are With What You Do."

 

 

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May Image of Renewal

In Honor of Volunteer Week

The Dance

C.K. Williams

A middle-aged woman, quite plain, to be polite about it, and

      somewhat stout, to be more courteous still,

but when she and the rather good-looking, much younger man

      she’s with get up to dance,

her forearm descends with such delicate lightness, such restrained

      but confident ardor athwart his shoulder,

drawing him to her with such a firm, compelling warmth, and

      moving him with effortless grace

into the union she’s instantly established with the not at all

      rhythmically solid music in this second-rate café

that something in the rest of us, some doubt about ourselves, some

      sad conjecture, seems to be allayed,

nothing that we’d ever thought of as a real lack, nothing not to be

      admired or be repentant for,

but something to which we’ve never adequately given credence,

which might have consoling implications about how we misbe-

      lieve ourselves, and so the world,

that world beyond us which so often disappoints, but which

      sometimes shows us, lovely, what we are.

Consider the volunteer who, with grace, draws worthwhile work to her, rhythmically shows us, lovely, what we are.  Celebrate the volunteers in your life – those who choose to dance…

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This is our monthly offering of Words of Courage. It is our hope that the words that you read and the questions you consider will en-Courage you to engage fully in your work in the world.

These "Words of Courage" contributed by Donald Porter, a long time friend and facilitator for CRNT.

Image of Renewal: Transitions

What  decisions/choices are you facing in your transitions?

March Words of Courage

Metamorphosis

Always it happens when we are not there - 

The tree leaps up alive into the air,

Small open parasols of Chinese green

Wave on each twig.  But who has ever seen

The latch spring, the bud as it burst?

Spring always manages to get there first.

Lovers of wind, who will have been aware

Of a faint stirring in the empty air,

Look up one day through a dissolving screen

To find no star, but this multiplied green,

Shadow on shadow, singing sweet and clear.

Listen, lovers of wind, the leaves are here!

 — May Sarton

What is happening when you are not there? 

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This is our monthly offering of Words of Courage. It is our hope that the words that you read and the questions you consider will en-Courage you to engage fully in your work in the world.

These "Words of Courage" contributed by Ann Faulkner, a long time friend and facilitator for CRNT.

March Image of Renewal

 What quiet rhythms do you see rippling through your life and work?

February Words of Courage

February Images of Renewal

January Image of Renewal

 What seeds sre lying dormant for you in your life and work?

 Photo Mandala © Donna Bearden