Possibility from the Pressure

Today, I have been so acutely aware of several places where people I know are experiencing painful situations. In much of society there are echoes of this, and this time of year of Celebration, with joy focus, also carries with it such shadow.

Such beauty and such poignancy........ Feeling all this and being willing to include feeling both the song of the joy and the song of the pain, carries with it a gift, a potentiality. 

Meeting such reality in the places of pressure, calls and invites me to notice too, the cracks where the light starts to pour in. 

This requests me to take care where I place my attention. . . . .