Miracle

Ten thousand dreams and wishes,
imprinted on golden bits of cellulose
One by one, in tens and hundreds,
falling to the ground to plant themselves
Fingerlings and arms and tendons,
bare to the blue sky–reach and reach again
Diamond ice bracelets and earrings
and droplets of pure pale silver sparkle
Winged things can’t help but stop
here before sailing on the ocean winds

A man walks below
and sits down on a cold bench there
His feet crush the little gold bits on the ground;
they fracture into more gold
He takes out a journal, heavy with content -
his back sags over the pages
His head is full of things, it sinks down on his shoulders.
He writes and writes.

He writes two words in Latin and a note…
an unremarkable varietal specimen...
The tree goes back to dreaming.

~Grace Gibson

~Art from Heaven On Earth Silks at Etsy

Why create a mandala?

Here are a number of really good reasons to begin to create your own personal mandala art as a journal or as a meditative practice.

• Because it has the regenerative and curative power to activate the latent powers of the mind. The meditative process helps to focus and open the heart to the healing power of unconditional love.



• Because it has a calming and relaxing effect on the mind and body, thus focusing and strengthening the will to heal.



• Because it can bring joy as it facilitates the healing of a sense of psychological fragmentation.



• Because it can make the invisible visible - expressing paradoxical situations or patterns of ultimate reality that can be expressed in no other way.



• Because it can reveal unity between human existence and the structure of the cosmos - opening up a perspective in which things can be understood as a whole.



• Because it can give form and expression to an intuitive insight into spiritual truth by releasing the inner light of the soul.

from Mandala by Judith Cornell
personal mandala by Michelle Church