Before I came to Houston for the SDI Conference I had spent several intense days writing, writing, and more writing and all through it Abbess Petunia was a quiet, faithful presence encouraging me on. Who is the muse in your own life? Make sure to stop by the Poetry Party – the random drawing for a prize is tomorrow! Become a [...]
Posts in the Creativity category
Illuminating Mystery: Creativity as a Spiritual Practice
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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 [...]
New Things
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Now I am revealing new things to you Things hidden and unknown to you Created just now, this very moment. Of these things you have heard nothing until now. So that you cannot say, Oh yes, I knew this. -Isaiah 48:6-7 There is lots of newness here at the Abbey. In many ways it feels [...]
Cycles of Creativity
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“A major obstacle to creativity is wanting to be in the peak season of growth and generation at all times . . . but if we see the soul’s journey as cyclical, like the seasons. . . then we can accept the reality that periods of despair or fallowness are like winter – a resting [...]
Seasons, Abundance, and Wish Lives
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There are a lot of new things blossoming here at the Abbey. Just last week I accepted a halftime position as the Program Coordinator for the Ignatian Spirituality Center that begins later this summer. I am delighted to be a part of the mission of this organization. While I reflect a lot here on Benedictine spirituality, Ignatian [...]
Creative Rhythms
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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 [...]
Serving the Mysteries
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A couple of weeks ago, in my interview with Heather Williams Durka, she used a phrase to describe her work as an artist that has stayed with me: "Serving the Mysteries." I was really entranced by that image, because for me the spiritual journey is not so much about growing in certainty as it is about learning [...]
Invitations and Transformations
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This past week I was feeling pretty overtired from teaching all the previous weekend while recovering from a bug. Finally by Friday I began to feel like myself again. So it was a gift to have already planned to spend the morning meeting one of my favorite artists. I first discovered Miska's work at the [...]
The Fountain
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The Fountain Don't say, don't say there is no water to solace the dryness at our hearts. I have seen the fountain springing out of the rock wall and you drinking there. And I too before your eyes found footholds and climbed to drink the cool water. The woman of that place, shading her eyes, [...]
Artists Speaking About Their Art
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I am honored to be included in this compilation of quotes by artists speaking about their art as a part of a grant project to explore creativity and spirituality. Some intriguing words for reflection found there, not to mention links to some fabulous artists' websites. Click on over to find some inspiration. How would you [...]
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