“We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the Garden.”
~ Joni Mitchell
Today is Easter Sunday and many around the world are celebrating the resurrection of Jesus. And the choice of Love.
The type of Love taught to us by Jesus is the highest form of unconditional love that transcends our human experience.
At this place in humanity’s timeline this wisdom is sorely needed. It is our opportunity to create a totally new world by holding that love in our hearts.
The photograph that is displayed at the top of this post is of my Mom, Jayne Teed Redman, walking the Chartres style labyrinth at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in my hometown, Columbia, South Carolina.
There are two reasons why I selected this photograph. First, it reminds me of one of many wonderful memories of her love-filled life. Her love for her children and her family was unconditional.
Second, walking the labyrinth was a new experience for her and took her out of her comfort zone. She was inquisitive and highly intelligent, and willing to go along with me and try it out.
Our world today seems to be in tumultuous, uncharted waters. Walking the labyrinth is an ancient way to help both the left and right hemispheres of our brain to connect, which causes our body to relax.
We have all been given free will to choose our paths, no matter what anyone says to the contrary. Taking the time daily to let go of the past is one way to lift our energies and help our world.
May peace and love be with us all.
Featured image, “Mom Walking the Labyrinth”, from the Healing Spirit ArtĀ© Collection of positive, inspirational, life-affirming fine art photography, writing and music by Teri Leigh Teed. This photograph can also be found in Chapter 9 of Teri’s debut indie book, Mystical South Carolina: A Pilgrimage to Joy .
And in 2026 during the Walk for Peace Venerable Buddhist monks visited this labyrinth and gave a talk from here, and stayed overnight inside the seminary. The monks’ visit to this labyrinth was special to me for several reasons. First, my Mom and I walked this labyrinth together as part of my own personal pilgrimage. And second, the monks stayed overnight at the Lutheran Theological Seminary and during the next several days they walked near several other sites in my personal pilgrimage years before, and written about in my book, Mystical South Carolina: A Pilgrimage to Joy.
