Sunday the season of Advent begins. Advent is my favorite liturgical season in large part because of the time of year when it falls here in the northern hemisphere. My heart expands in the growing darkness of winter days and Advent calls me to tend to what is birthing in me.
During the Advent season I [...]
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“Welcome to your own priesthood,
practiced at the altar of your own life.” (xvii)
“Christianity ‘is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one’s body shaped, one’s habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.’ (quote from Stanley [...]
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Do you have a body? Don’t sit on the porch!
Go out and walk in the rain!
If you are in love,
then why are you asleep?
Wake up, wake up!
You have slept millions of years
Why not wake up this morning
-Kabir
“In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that [...]
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Last weekend I attended the Northwest Women’s Convocation which was a pretty amazing event with almost 2000 attendees. There were speakers like Riane Eisler, Ivone Gebara, Edwina Gately, Brian Swimme, and Margaret Wheatley (insights gleaned will be featured here soon). I had an exhibit table next to St. Placid Priory where I am a Benedictine Oblate. [...]
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I am catching up on emails this morning and not sure what this says about me, but one of the notes that excited me most was from Rich at Pilgrim Path who sent me this link about a new book on relics called Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead. Some of you [...]
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I have had a few emails inquiring about how Kathleen Norris’ talk was last Saturday. I will write more as we get closer to Advent since she focused primarily on her contribution to the book God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas (which may become my new favorite resource for Advent with its gorgeous art and contributions by such [...]
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And it was then that in the depths of sleep
Someone breathed to me: “You alone can do it,
Come immediately.”
-Jules Superveille, from ‘The Call”
You cannot travel the path until you have become the path.
-Gautama Buddha
Wayfarer, the only way
is your footsteps, there is no other.
Wayfarer, there is no way,
you make the way by walking.
As you go, you make the [...]
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I have been listening a lot these days. My life feels full and rich and I am also feeling a bit gluttonous for wanting it all, not really wanting to say no to anything. There is a playful, exuberant little girl inside of me relishing the sheer abundance of possibility.
And yet there is also my inner hermit who [...]
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Today I am continuing our theme this week of illumination. Several weeks ago I did my Sacred Artist Interview with Jan Richardson. I shared the kinship I have felt with Jan because of her love of illuminated manuscript and the way they serve as inspiration for her own work. Several years ago Phil Cousineau edited these two [...]
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I first encountered Laurie Mika’s work when I saw one of her mosaic classes offered. While paper arts and photography are my primary art forms, I sometimes like to extend myself into the world of mosaics, where broken pieces are transformed into something of beauty. Her class was full, as most of them are, but I visited her [...]
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