Above is my snazzy new banner (created in Microsoft Publisher) for my new Etsy store, I’d love to know what you think of it!  Drop me a note and let me know and also please respond to my question at the end of this post.
I have just about completed my new set of Prayer Cards for Autumn!  Fall […]

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I finally had time today to set up my new Etsy store for easier online orders of my new quarterly spirituality & art journal Praying With the Elements, Annual Subscriptions, and Blossoming Prayer Cards. 
Have you ordered your copy of Praying With the Elements yet?  If this blog is a meaningful part of your day, I […]

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I just came back from the most delightful lunch with the lovely lucy on a gorgeous late summer day here in Seattle to find a box of treasures at my door:
 
Thank you to everyone who has placed an order for a Praying with the Elements art & spirituality zine already, they will go out in […]

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I just received the digital proofs from the printer for my brand new offering — Praying With the Elements — the first in a quarterly series of mini-journals/zines celebrating the spiritual life using words and images.  Grounded in Christian tradition, although I hope it is spacious enough so others will find wisdom there as well. I had […]

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I am back from several days on Vancouver Island where my husband and I took a Celtic Art and Design class together.  When we were in Ireland in June I was captivated by the woven strands and spirals in the art everywhere, so it was a gift to learn how to do this.  I thoroughly […]

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Thank you all who left comments this week!  I am grateful for your support and for your ideas of other readings to include reflections on, and how wonderful that so many of you shared your own poems. I am touched by the amazing artists and poets who visit here.  If other readings come to you, please […]

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Give me this water, so I may not be thirsty.
-John 4:15
Fluent
I would love to live
Like a river flows
Carried by the surprise
Of its own unfolding.
-John O’Donohue
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my […]

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I am the vine and you are the branches.
-John 15:5
God said, “Come no nearer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
-Exodus 3:5
This earth we are riding keeps trying to tell us something with its continuous scripture of leaves. 
–William Stafford
I love the element of earth. I adore trees […]

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A feather on the breath of God. 
-Hildegard of Bingen
As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them,
so would I learn to attain
freefall, and float
into Creator Spirits deep embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding grace.
-Denise Levertov
On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open […]

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Abba Lot came to Abba Joseph and said: Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and, according as I am able, I strive to cleanse my heart of thoughts: now what more should I do? The elder rose up in reply […]

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