I Heart Macro Week 9

Welcome to our Ninth Week of I Heart Macro

"Pure awareness transcends thinking... It allows you to look at the world once again with open eyes. And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life."~Mark Williams and Danny Pennman, from Mindfulness An Eight-Week Plan For Finding Peace In A Frantic World

It is time for YOU to share the love up-close with YOUR

I Heart Macro offerings!

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every breath sacred

holiness as connection

fills the sea of tears

possibility

birthing ocean diving in

again and again

Some thoughts for this week: 

Every breath is sacred, a gift. We’ve all had glimpses of this truth, no matter how fleeting, and when see the marvel of this life; a wholesome desire arises to not waste the preciousness of what has been given, even when this particular offering is a passing awareness.

In my experience, it is possible to learn to savor the greatest challenges faced, for what they teach. That is not to say we attach our selves to suffering, rather we begin to observe pain as it dissolves, becoming one with the ocean’s tears. Bubbling up to the surface a new transparent possibility arises. This is a moment of transformation, for something miraculous, surprising, and yes, ephemeral has stirred us to remember; every breath is sacred, a gift. And in this knowing, we can once more exhale, release our grasping grip, open to the next inhalation, right here, right now. 

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Enjoy slowing down with your camera, paying full attention, observing beauty and curiosities many people pass right by. Your generosity of spirit and keen eyes may open the door to miniscule miracles and mirth others would not have access to otherwise. Feel free to include poetry, prose and thoughts your macro photo or series inspire(s) in you. Writing is completely optional for participation. Straight out of the camera (SOC), edited, color, black and white; anything goes as long as you bring the viewer near to whatever it is that drew your heart's attention and "woke you up" to full presence.

Please link back to my blog either using the button provided or by linking the words "I Heart Macro" back to my blog with this link: shinethedivinecreativityisaspiritualpractice.com. By sharing the link, visitors to your blog will learn about this meme and have a chance to participate as well if they so choose. 

Visit each other...

S  p  r  e  a  d  the  LOVE. Thanks :-)

*I Heart Macro Linky opens Saturday evening 8pm EST. 

I do hope you will come back and join us!

Ps.  If you were wondering, these are not soap bubbles, they are the magical froth that met my toes at the edge of the sea. If you look closely you can see the sand.

linking to:

share the joy thursday

haiku my heart 

weekend reflections

weekly topshot

macro monday 2

real toads 

d'verse

nature notes