The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.
             ----- Jean-Pierre de Caussade

We are fluid,
Floating in divine motion,
The current that quenches the soul.
—- G. Hill

God is a God of motion, of beauty, of dimension, of movement, and of mission.
----- Leonard Sweet

In the Palm of Peace and Stillness,

When my small-little-girl world felt too noisy, when the world created by grownups did not make sense, I would find peace and stillness in the palm of our willow tree.  

The trunk of this tree spread out into solid branches, low to the ground for easy climbing and solid enough to hold me and all my questions.  There I would lay life's assorted puzzle-pieces, all the whys, the why nots that were becoming too heavy to carry all alone. 

After a while, I would leave my sanctuary, light as a feather, with the understanding that life's mysteries and uncertainties could be better handled by a wise and loving hand.  
 
I am grateful that my inner child, that faithful little girl with her small voice can still be heard.  I have learned to listen to her. She is assuring me now, her wisdom rising above the clamor of the day, telling me to climb higher to a place ever strong enough to hold me and my uncertainties in the palm of His hand. 

Climbing higher and higher, where a hand awaits, my soul light as a feather, fluid as water and innocent as a child. 

Faith is buoyancy in the storm.  What God has promised is already in motion.
 ------G. Hill

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.     
        ----John 14: 27

GH

See Also:

Endless Motion

Happiness in Waves