Over our recent weekly meet-ups we’ve been helping create themed pictures for the youngest visitors to the YetStreams Talents Club using hands & feet art creations : drawing around dinky digits to make hand-bouquets for mothers’ day last week, then having a go at circling crayons round tiny toes to eventually turn these into fluffy rabbit pics for Easter now fast approaching!

‘Planting’ hands in the flower-pot pictures sparked chatting among the grownups around the subject of how do we plant ourselves in real life. What would it look like to plant our hands to a task or to plant our feet into an opportunity?  All of us have numerous hidden talents, many of these closer to the surface than we realise – and it often takes a wise or seasoned learner to help us draw these out and begin to use our talents for our good and the flourishing of our community. If we are currently battling stolen or denied opportunity, have a go at thinking through the planting of our feet firmly on more level ground, the settled ground of knowing we have more to happen in our lives, further to develop, and greater to succeed at and be generous in.

Let’s help each other remember to over-estimate, to imagine for bigger..and to see each other through when there’s a curved-ball near-hit.  Be bold to think of yourself as uniquely planted for the next landing into an opportunity, keeping hands usefully rooted upon the purpose-filled tasks you really delight in – this is far from surrendering with hands-up or resigned to same-old ‘same=old’!  When we can remind each other to live like that, we have found a level field where our progress is no longer hindered by limiting barriers, and it’s so much clearer as a vista for seeing those talents glinting near the surface for you to trade upon in your field, and the field of your wider community.