. . . Beckie Boger! Beckie, email me with your snail mail address and I will get a signed copy of Eyes of the Heart: Photography as a Christian Contemplative Practice directly from me in Ireland!
Such a delight, as always, to savor the poems from this past week’s Poetry Party on the wisdom of creatures. Pour a cup of tea and linger a while. My heart is full of gratitude for all of our Abbey poets!
For Glimpses of Heaven Here and Now*Sacred Source of Joy,help us to see glimpsesof heaven all around us,in the urgency of each spring’s blooming,in the simple gifts of waterto bathe in and drink,in our morning tea or coffee,with steam rising like this prayer,in the dog’s
Thank you to all of our dancing monks who shared their word of guidance for the year with us here. Congratulations to our winners of the random prize drawing: Please email Melinda at dancingmonk@abbeyofthearts.com to claim your prize.
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Wisdom Council member Melissa Layer‘s reflection on making nature mandalas. I became aware of how the extraordinary is exquisitely entangled within the