I have a friend who is enamored with rocks. Each time we go to the beach when she visits, she is drawn in some way to examining them and bringing the special ones back home. She’d leave them around the house in small piles and I’d find them after she left.
Last summer she gave me three special rocks. They are in the picture below. I look at them everyday without any other significance other than remembering her. It was just today I realized the gifts she gave me in each one. She gave me courage because she knows I get my feelings hurt easily and have to develop a “lizard skin”. She gave me peace because she knows I need to still my body and discover the power of daily meditation. She gave me silence because she knows I talk too much and need to listen more. The rocks themselves represent the strengths we admire in each other and, at times, exchange.
Today I’d like to give these gifts to you. In your quiet time think: if I gave you courage, what in your life would it be for? What great thing do you need to steel yourself against? If I gave you peace, where in your life is it needed most? What place in your world needs quieting right now? If I gave you silence, what would you hear?
Today I share my gifts with you, just as my friend shared them with me. Take them and use them as you will. Find 6 special rocks of your own. Make one set as a gift to yourself by writing the words on them, and make another set to pass on to someone close to you.
And so, as another day goes by, it is once again the elements of the earth that change and rearrange us, and…I have written.
i love it.
Courage to let down my walls. Peace to know that I will see my dad again. Silence to hear the details I know I often miss.