Start With What's Beautiful

This month I seem a little all over the place because well, I have been. But I haven't forgotten what this month was to be about. And I haven't forgotten the task I set for myself, which was to read "Women, Food and God".
I'm into chapter three now and it's an interesting read although I don't think I've got past the skin to the flesh and bones of it all yet.
One passage that Geneen wrote jumped out at me. It seems far from the subject matter at heart but it all has it's place in her work.

"And I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair, the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace its perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon."

I loved that - the intangible presence, the swath of stillness, like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon. That metaphor enveloped me in the feeling of exactly what she was talking about. Just beautiful! Had to share. :-)