B.G. Kelley

B.G. Kelley shares a story of how a few roses spoke to the truths of the heart, the mind and the soul.

It can be a pretty stiff test of character to not only forgive but also to ask for forgiveness. There's pain, there's suffering, there's challenge. In fact, at times, it seems an impossible task. 

Soul Seeing - I retreat to open, unspoiled spaces to engage the intellect and spirit, to confront darker places in life without denial or fear. Open, unspoiled space fills up those spaces in my soul that need filling up.

Soul Seeing: Snow can engender a palpable inner peace; it can reawaken an innocence in us that gets lost — or at least misplaced — when we become adults, reason alone to embrace this uninvited guest, and recognize its lyric beauty.

Soul Seeing: Like humans, the furred, feathered and finned come from God. And we are realizing our links to animals in terms of communication, intelligence and emotional life.

Soul Seeing: I don't recall how many wreaths I made that first Christmastide. I do know that many of them found their way to a front door in Paradise. A front door without one of my pop's wreaths was like a church without a stained-glass window.