Comments on: Advent: Uncovering What Has Been Hidden

By: Sunrise Sister

Sunrise Sister — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:55:17 +0000

Hi Christine, I’ve come back to this post today after just reading your latest post and viewing your latest beautiful visual meditation. I wrote of being awakened and alert several times this week over at MindSieve. As I reread your post right now, I realize that your post and my Advent readings have combined to waken me and allow me to curse the irrelevant busyness of this season and to bless the quiet moments that allow me to remember what this season is all about. Thank you! xoxoxo

By: Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:23:45 +0000

Thank you, Christine. A very helpful and lovely meditation. I am making the rounds of my favorite blogs this morning and all of them are inviting me to see how I have fallen asleep to Hope. Not in a personal sense or even in my “immediate” life. But to hope in a very global sense. To continue to hope for a time when our world will know peace. Or to hope that humanity will evolve to a point where it will be able to sustain itself and the planet. So, I appreciate the time this morning to sit and breathe in hope. And then, to breathe it out again. For the whole world.

Love….

By: Lois Perron

Lois Perron — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:44:04 +0000

Thank you Christine for these reflections. I’ve choosen to read them at my Christian yoga classes this week – they fit so perfectly with what I had been pondering this morning as I gazed upon the sunrise, watching God’s great glory unfolding.

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:12:32 +0000

Thank you. I will keep this in mind.

Anita

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:11:51 +0000

Thank you so much for this awakening call at the beginning of Advent. I posted this on my blog with links to come here. Thank you.

By: Gill Taylor

Gill Taylor — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:53:20 +0000

Thanks for this timely reminder for us all. Namaste Gill

By: claire

claire — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:52:50 +0000

Beautiful. A real gift. Every word, every thought. Thank you.

By: Christine "Blisschick" Reed

Christine "Blisschick" Reed — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:08:36 +0000

Christine, Thank you. This is just beautiful. Happy, happy days to you.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:11:11 +0000

We read these same verses last night at church. Mary’s homily focused not on the fear of the end times, but rather on being alert and aware as you’ve explained so beautifully. Her challenge was to be doing God’s will and way when those times come. To do that you have to stay awake to God and His presence. I’ve started a Centering prayer practice and taking that holy pause during the day to simply rest in God’s presence has made me more aware of God’s presence all the other times or the day.

By: kigen

kigen — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:10:33 +0000

Christine, you are the abbey this morning in all its prayerful retreat and wonder, and I celebrate you in that role and delight in your meditation. You asked: “When you become present to this moment in time, what are the secret gifts you uncover hidden deep in your heart?”

I did discover something recently, and probably others know it well and work with it, but it seemed like a secret revealed. I was sitting at the computer, and I thought to straighten my back, place my feet flat on the floor and take my hands off the keyboard and place them on my thighs, closing my eyes halfway. After a time, I realized that my inner being had straightened also, it was not just in my mind, but the spiritual energy straightened also and it seemed like a yoga of being was occurring, the inner self realigning and reshaping into a most beautiful posture within.