Silver Shimmers There is a thin cord from your heart that winds its intricate way through our wondering lives as it finds its way to God. We have seen it fluttering in the air at the moment when your song is done. You have made us feel like sun-warmed stones at day's end. But now you are in a sadness entangled in silver shimmers and need the peace to dance free in this time of turning and ending. Know that you and yours are well enfolded by the returning flowing spirit and your purposes are softly to be seen there in its rhythms Be well. Be true. Be still. You are ever in God's hands. Let melancholy show you afresh where this silver thread anchors in your heart. "Head of a Young Woman" - da Vinci   1journey.net     dec 1999 elias  To a friend who had given too much of herself away and needed time alone to heal. She needed her family now, not us. Leonardo's sketch exquisitely captured the feeling.