Spiritual tenacity. More than just hanging on. It’s bracing against whatever may come with roots deep within the soul and a heart permanently open to hope - hope for so much more.

“Wherever your treasure is stored, your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21

Only in and through forgiveness is the way forward. Rise in a posture of heart. There is so much more.

Grace on a Winter Morning on Flickr.

“Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.” ― W. Paul Young, The Shack

To embrace the light around us and in us; to be thankful. That’s what it means to be illuminated.

Prayerful intentions.

“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need.” - Rumi

Renew in hope and thankfulness. To not give up.

” … hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” - Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption

Forever Caught in a Dream on Flickr.

Worry, fear, doubt. It can rush in like incoming tide caught in a storm but quietly recedes on a prayer of thankfulness and hope. Ebb and flow. What comes in can easily go out and what remains, grace. Hold steady in the tides and be true to self.

Begin again in thankfulness. Texture and form in Zion National Park, Utah.

“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.”

- Thich Naht Hanh