My blog is a finalist under the Best of Blogs Inspirational category! Best of Blogs is dedicated to giving exposure to smaller blogs. I am very excited and honored. You can vote for me here (scroll down to the third category), you get one vote per day until April 13, 2007.
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, Our featured self-study retreat this month is Sacred Time, the companion retreat to my book of the same title. Here is an excerpt from the introduction to the book: We live in a breathless world. Everything around us seems to move
Christine was featured in an interview with AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast on the intersection of creativity and monastic spirituality. In addition to being a Benedictine Oblate, Christine is Jesuit educated, with degrees from Fordham and Santa Clara Universities, and has written a library of books
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Krissy Kludt’s reflection and poem Of Dust and Water. Several years ago, I texted my father from a snowbound house in Tahoe,
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Thank you Rich and Suz, you are all so wonderful. Maybe I’ll include a little link at the bottom of my posts for the next couple of weeks with reminders to vote if you feel so inclined.
Christine,
You have become a touchstone for me in a short time and I thank you. I voted the first day…and then forgot I could keep voting…I will hustle over there!
Congratulatory hugs,
Suz
What a deal! We’ve been voting early and often in Chicago for YEARS!!!! Congrats, Christine. No one is more deserving!
Thank you Cathleen! I am deeply appreciative.
I will be pleased to vote for you every day!! It’s one way of thanking you for your ministry~art~photography~inspiration.
Congratulations!! :D
Thank you Bette, I hope it has all been good stuff clearing the way for you to create!
Thanks so much Cathy for the nomination.
Blessings, Christine
You have my vote for sure!!!
Congrats on being nominated !
I will vote for you everyday :)
Sorry I haven’t been posting much. Spring break here and misc. stuff. But thinking of you! { hugs }