You may be a strong voice proclaiming your truth to the world. You may be a do-er of weighty deeds. You may gather many followers. Or you may go about your daily tasks in blessed obscurity, quietly holding space for God. Wherever you go, whatever thread-weaving or bread-baking of bread or stroking of brow your hand might engage in, know that you can be part of a deeper work. Your very Being on earth is a portal to the vast silence, the ineffable peace, the boundless delight of God, who cannot begin to conceive of a universe without your presence. Has the Creator not dissolved a grain of you in the heart of every creature? Has the Spirit not mingled her motherhood in your breath?
Art by Elżbieta Stawińska, who is reviving the ancient art of Orthodox icon painting.
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