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Sue Monk Kidd said
…to start off she gave me a lesson in what she called “bee yard etiquette”. She reminded me that the world was one big bee yard, and the same rules worked fine in both places. Don't be afraid, as no life loving bee want to sting you. Still, don't be an idiot, wear long sleeves and long pants. Don't swat. Don't even think about swatting. If you feel angry whistle. Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bees temper. Act like you know what you are doing, even if you don't. Above all, send the bees love. Every little thing wants to be loved.
Sue Monk Kidd said
“If you have the right kind of ears, you can listen to a hive and hear the Christmas story somewhere inside yourself. You can hear silent things on the other side of the everyday world that nobody else can.
And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it”
“You could say I'd never had a true religious moment, the kind where you know yourself spoken to by a voice that seems other than yourself, spoken to so genuinely you see the words shining on the trees and clouds. But I had such a moment right then, standing in my own ordinary room. I heard a voice say, “Lily Melissa Owens, your jar is open.”