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Archive for December, 2008
Abbey Blog on a Brief Break
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** The Abbey Blog will be on a break the next few days until the Feast of Epiphany on January 4th — look for a new reflection then ** ** Our next Poetry Party will return on Monday, January 5th and the Sacred Artist Interviews will be back that week as well ** In the meantime [...]
Christmas Blessings from Seattle
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** A Most Blessed Christmas to all my dear readers ** -Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts (all photos taken this week in downtown Seattle)
Song for the Soul
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This song has been speaking to me in beautiful ways during the Advent season. I offer it to you as a gift for Christmas on this most holy night. Return in the morning for more images!
Say Yes (4)
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In the center of ourselves you place the power of choosing. Forgive us the times we have given that power away, when we have sold our birthright for that which does not satisfy. And so in your wisdom may our yes be truly yes and our no be truly no, that we may touch with [...]
Say Yes (3)
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If you are here unfaithfully with us, you’re causing terrible damage. If you’ve opened your loving to God’s love, you’re helping people you don’t know and have never seen. Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe. -Rumi ** For the [...]
Say Yes (2)
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The Road Here is the road: the light comes and goes then returns again. Be gentle with your fellow travelers as they move through the world of stone and stars whirling with you yet every one alone. The road waits. Do not ask questions but when it invites you to dance at daybreak, say yes. [...]
Visual Meditation: Crystalline Darkness, Glittering Stillness
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Winter Solstice (Two Poems by Rebecca Parker) Perhaps for a moment… the wheels stop rolling, the computers desist from computing, and a hush will fall over the city. For an instant, in the stillness, the chiming of celestial spheres will be heard as earth hangs poised in the crystalline darkness, and then tilts. Let there [...]
Say Yes (1)
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May it be done to me according to your word. -Luke 1:38 Consent There was the minute no one speaks of, when she could still refuse. A breath unbreathed, Spirit, suspended, waiting. She did not cry,”I cannot, I am not worthy,” nor, “I have not the strength.” She did not submit with gritted teeth, raging, [...]
Holy Darkness (6)
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O night of admiration, full of choirs, O night of deepest praise, And darkness full of sweet delight! -Thomas Merton, A Book of Hours ** For the season of Advent I am posting a reflection each Sunday on a theme from the lectionary readings and then during the week offering a poem each day to [...]
