Bamboo Sways In the Wind (WC)

 

(Wendy Cabell, Bright Thursday (it's focus is on John 3, Nicodemos), feast day of Our Lady of Quito, Blessed María Felicia Guggiari Echeverria (Chiquitunga), Saints Theodora and Didymus, Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort, Blessed Marie-Louise Trichet, Saint Benedict of the Bridge, Saint Valeria of Milan, and Blessed Jozef Cebula. Image from here.)

Bamboo Sways In the Wind

Allow yourself to follow this natural rocking and movement 

that comes from within [even as you are “still”]…like a 

bamboo gently moving in the wind.--Dimitri Timoshenko

wind’s

hush,

opening--

offering

Spirit a

home

*Inspired by the Qigong exercise Bamboo Sways in Wind (or Bamboo in Wind), and by artwork and discussion at Janice Ariza and Evan Clendenin's Spiritual Tools For Artists: A Pastel Mood  (Priory of Saint Placid, Lacey, WA), April 28, 2022.