Commitment

"Commitment has kind eyes.  He wears sturdy shoes.  Everything is vivid when he is around.  It is wonderful to sit and have lunch in his gardens around harvest time.  You can taste in the vegetables that the soil has been cared for."
 -- J. Ruth Gendler

I love to be around people who are "committed" to their lives - who understand what commitment is and its role in relationship and spiritual integrity.  It is so powerful to feel that level of trust in another person - that you just know they won't bail on you, ever, because they won't bail on themselves, ever.  There is a calmness to people of commitment that comes from having earned the scars that teach it.  When you're with a committed person, you just naturally know it and relax. 

Anne, Jake, and I will be going to Forever Spring Farm to visit two such souls at the end of the month, and the soil there has been deeply cared for.  It is where we go to get nourished and replenished, and it has been way too long.  We're coming, B. & C., and thanks so much for inviting us at just the right time for us - and right before our new baby comes!