Entries from February 2008

New Orleans: Visual Meditation (Part One)

February 29, 2008 · by Christine

(photos of the stunning oak trees taken in Audubon Park in New Orleans) 
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
** Make sure to visit this week’s Poetry Party — one more day to submit your poem and be entered into the drawing to win a set of Spring Prayer Cards **

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Sacred Artist Interview: Jan Richardson

February 28, 2008 · by Christine

I have been a fan of Jan Richardson’s work for a long time.  Her books In Wisdom’s Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season and Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas are two of my favorites because of their combining of word and image. Unfortunately the latter of those two is only available […]

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Abbey Bookshelf: Shadow Work

February 27, 2008 · by Christine

“But when the shadow is given conscious recognition we will find that it has much of positive value to add to our personality, often giving us the earthiness, or instinctuality, or zest for living, or humility that is exactly what we need to complement our personality and become a complete human being.” -John A. Sanford, Dreams: […]

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Notes from New Orleans

February 26, 2008 · by Christine

I spent the last several days in New Orleans at a meeting for Loyola’s adjunct faculty in their ministry extension program.  I began this role in the fall so this was my first time at their campus, even though I used to do some group facilitation for them while living in the Sacramento Diocese.  It was […]

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Invitation to Poetry: Reaching Across Time

February 25, 2008 · by Christine

Poetry Party lucky number 13!  I select an image and suggest a title and invite you to respond with your poems, words, reflections, quotes, song lyrics, etc.  Leave them in the comments or email me and I’ll add them to the body of the post as they come in along with a link back to your […]

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6 Words

February 23, 2008 · by Christine

H.M. offered this 6 Word Memoir Meme to his readers: try to write your whole life story in just six words.  I am doing a slight variation, in that trying to encompass the whole of my life so succinctly feels overwhelming.  But while at this conference I am attending, someone asked me what is the […]

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Visual Meditation: Dropping Keys

February 22, 2008 · by Christine

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Dropping Keys
The small man
Builds cages for everyone
He
Knows.
While the sage,
Who has to duck his head
When the moon is low,
Keeps dropping keys all night long
For the
Beautiful
Rowdy
Prisoners.
-Hafiz
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(a simple meditation this week — photo is of a collection I have of old keys from Austria) 
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
** Come back Monday for our next Poetry Party […]

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Sacred Artist Interview: Maggie Yowell

February 21, 2008 · by Christine

I first met Maggie Yowell when she came to me for spiritual direction and then later she participated in our Awakening the Creative Spirit program.  It was more of a continued nurturing in the program since she had long been awakened through her work in SoulCollage, both as artist and facilitator of the process.  In […]

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Abbey Bookshelf: Poetry Writing Edition

February 20, 2008 · by Christine

I adore poetry and often find it to be a source of profound wisdom as valuable to me as other sacred texts. I sometimes write them myself and post them, although they often stay tucked in the pages of my journal. I love to lead poetry-writing exercises in some of my retreat and training programs, and of course I adore hosting […]

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Creative Rhythms

February 19, 2008 · by Christine

Moon
The moon is full tonight
an illustration for sheet music,
an image in Matthew Arnold
glimmering on the English Channel,
or a ghost over a smoldering battlefield
in one of the history plays.
It’s as full as it was
in that poem by Coleridge
where he carries his year-old son
into the orchard behind the cottage
and turns the baby’s face to the sky
to see […]

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