Last week I began to send out the latest issue of my Reflective Art Journal — Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice — a wonderful collaboration between several amazing artists and myself. The feedback is coming in and the comments go something like this: "it's beautiful! I always look forward to your Sacred Artist [...]
Archive for March, 2009
"Everywhere I look I see fire"
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In the dead of night he suddenly beheld a flood of light shining down from above more brilliant than the sun, and . . . the whole world was gathered up before his eyes in what appeared to be a single ray of light. -The Life and Miracles of Saint Benedict by Pope St. Gregory [...]
Prayer for Springtime
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Earth our Mother, breathe forth life All night sleeping Now awaking In the east Now see the dawn Earth, our mother, breathe and waken Leaves are stirring All things moving New day coming Life renewing Eagle soaring, see the morning See the new mysterious morning Something marvelous and sacred Though it happens every day Dawn [...]
Seven Things Making My Heart Sing Today
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1. Having phenomenal friends, women who claim their voice and power with such radiance that I can't help but try my best to follow suit. 2. Being in the process of writing not just one, but two different books on the spiritual life. One is a book about the Awakening the Creative Spirit program for [...]
Peeling Away the Layers
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The last couple of days my body has asked for rest and so I have listened rather than pushed forward. And in the quiet spaces I have been listening. Lent is doing its work on me. Shadows are being illumined, layers of myself are being peeled back to reveal the depths of who I am, [...]
Spring has Sprung
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For see, the winter is past, the rains are over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines, in bloom, give forth fragrance. Arise, my beloved, [...]
Visual Meditation: Exploring the Shadows of Lent
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When we stand in the light, we cast a shadow. Light and shade are to each other as breathing in is to breathing out. Some aspects of ourselves are in the light, visible to us and others. Other aspects, positive and negative, are in the shadow, unseen by us, even when seen by others. These [...]
Enough
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Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to the life We have refused Again and again Until now. Until now. – David Whyte
Come and be Awakened!
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Two months from today (May 17-22, 2009) a dozen or so participants will gather at the beautiful Hood Canal (see photo above) in the height of spring here in the Northwest for five days of creative awakening. I have been co-teaching this program with the delightful Betsey Beckman for four years now (and a previous [...]
All the True Vows
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All the true vows are secret vows the ones we speak out loud are the ones we break. There is only one life you can call your own and a thousand others you can call by any name you want. Hold to the truth you make every day with your own body, don't turn your [...]
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