your daily rock : choose joy

May 7, 2013 in Daily Rock, General

I am not always joyful.

Are you?

In fact, I am often overcome by the bigness of the sadness and inequity in the world. Sometimes I am in great pain, for myself or others. Life sometimes feels big and panicked and hurtful.

And even in those moments, I know I have a choice: I can make a choice that closes me down, or I can make a choice that opens me up.

I can choose, as William Wordsworth suggested, to live with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, so I can see into the life of things.

That is always a choice we can make.

Choose the deep power of joy today.

Love,

(These beautifully painted rocks are created by Kim Mailhot, aka The Rock Fairy.

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

1 comment to " your daily rock : choose joy "


Lindsey Mead

May 7, 2013 AT 6:39AM

That Wordsworth passage is one of my very favorites. Also “in this moment there is life and food for future years.” I have written a fair amount about thew fact that he’s the poet I hear the most frequently in my head.