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“New seed is faithful. It roots deepest in the places that are most empty.” -Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD
In spite of everything, I have an abiding faith in the innate resilience of human beings. Which, of course, is also an abiding faith in an abiding presence that is both beyond us and within us. The fact that resilience necessarily follows great difficulty, and sometimes a deep emptiness, is a hard truth for me. The difficulty and the emptiness are painful. And yet, over and over again I have both experienced and witnessed the rebirth, the something new, the previously untapped strength and giftedness. I am deeply honored to be allowed glimpses in to this journey for other people, to come alongside them as they embark on that “process of spirit and seed” of which Dr. Estes so eloquently writes.
“What is this faithful process of spirit and seed that touches empty ground and makes it rich again? Its greater workings I cannot claim to understand. But I know this: Whatever we set our days to might be the least of what we do, if we do not also understand that something is waiting for us to make ground for it, something that lingers near us, something that loves, something that waits for the right ground to be made so it can make its full presence known. I am certain that as we stand in the care of this faithful force, that what has seemed dead is dead no longer, what has seemed lost, is no longer lost, that which some have claimed impossible, is made clearly possible, and what ground is fallow is only resting — resting and waiting for the blessed seed to arrive on the wind with all Godspeed. And it will.”
From The Faithful Gardener, by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD