We had an interesting speaker at a recent virtual church service. She asked us what we envisioned as our internal landscape, our inner place of peace. People had many fascinating responses.
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A pond.
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Mountain lake: cool, clear water, with Tall old groves of trees.
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I would be an open sky FULL of stars!
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The undergrowth- I am creating the path to the reality I hope for.
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A still, clear lake.
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A forest trail.
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I’d be a tall craggy mountain covered with ice and frozen.
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A nest in a tree of dense leaves
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I would be a valley surrounded by mountains.
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A high vista looking out to sea.
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A mountain ridge.
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An Andean hilltop village.
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A tide flat.
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A winding path leading up into the foothills.
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Wide ocean beach.
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A soft rolling wave
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A beloved vegetable garden.
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Pacific Ocean being rippled by the waves.
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I’d be the subalpine meadows that surround Mount Rainier, covered in wildflowers.
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Waterfalls singing.
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A trail, exposed to hot sunlight and some shade here and there.
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An island on the edge of the ocean.
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A dark, mossy forest.
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An old tree standing in a densely shaded wood.
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I am the pathway up the mountain out of the darkness into the light.
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A mountain stream… flowing to unknown places…
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A sailboat on the Mediterranean.