create a clearing in the dense forest of your life
This visual meditation takes you on a short journey to stillness, rest and deeper connection both to yourself and God.
Find stillness, peace and rest as you open your hands to receive the song of your life… listening to Martha Postlethwaite’s poem “Clearing”.
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently, until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognise and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself to this world so
worthy of rescue.
Hi Nicky,
Thank you for the lovely meditation on stillness and clarity. I feel blessed to have stumbled upon your website when I did a search for one of Nan Merrill’s Psalms yesterday evening. Your calmness and words were just the healing balm I needed. My husband and I and our Pomeranian live in Arizona. I look forward to viewing more of your meditations and Lectio Divina recordings, and appreciate your focus on the Trinity, while exploring so many of the beautiful contemplative wisdom teachings. I was touched by your story and some of the suffering you have encountered and shared it with my husband this morning. Your sharing provided a healing for me, and I felt moved to thank you for the heart-centered website you have created and for using the wonderful gifts God has given you to bring more light into this world.
Blessings and best wishes,
Jennifer