Sometimes we have to be patient. We cannot see the whole picture or understand why things are happening. Moments may seem dark and we can feel like identifying with what is going on in our lives now and getting fixed there. We can be tempted to hate parts of ourselves or our life,  turn in on ourselves and close down. Instead, let’s try and keep our roots deep in the goodness underneath, and not in what passes through the mind.  We do not need to fill the space. Some kinds of unknowing are right. We try to trust even if we cannot see.  What is coming to pass will gradually reveal itself.

I prefer winter ……when you feel the bone structure of the landscape- the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.

Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

Andrew Wyatt,  American Painter