A hopeful jewel

49 Week of March 7  

Spirit strength crystalized

Into clear, strong thinking

An ice crystal grown

In winter’s cold and dark.

A prism for light.

Clarity of thought shines

morning sunlight drinking

A hopeful jewel turning

To amplify the spark

Of day dawning bright.

This is one of my favorite poems of this series.

Over the winter we have been distilling our powers of clear thinking into a shining crystal. Each winter that we live through, we have the opportunity to refine this process. We develop a relationship with our thinking when the outer world of nature, the strong life forces, are quiet and resting (they are actually busy making summer happen in the southern hemisphere, but that’s a topic for another time). It is this crystal matrix of thought that holds us steady when the rising life energy of summer starts to stream through us once again as the sunrise of the spring equinox approaches.