It seems this week I am short on my own words and am drawn to lots of poetry and images I have been taking of spring. Part of it is that I have been feeling in a very reflective and inward mood, wanting to let things bubble inside of me, not quite ready to lay them out here. Besides, do I really need to say anything when the world is this beautiful?
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
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
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Thanks Cathleen, I am definitly enjoying the pleasures of slowness and glad it comes through in my posts!
Awesome!!
And I feel your slower, intentional, taking-it-in and letting-it-flow-through-you pace in the beauty you share.
Blessings!
Thank you so much dear friends, I am grateful for all of your very kind words and the great quote from Me. Blessings upon each of your days, Christine
Dazzling….they say a lot, Christine!
i love the victor hugo quote above. thank you for sharing this beauty and light with us!
This may be your most amazing photo ever! And THAT is saying something! It’s an awfully, dreary chilly day in Chicago. It suddenly seems brighter. Thanks, Christine.
I can hear and see your words in your flowers! When words don’t come, nature speaks for us. Thanks be to God for that.
With thoughts and prayers for you, dear friend…….and a hug, too :)
I certainly don’t feel you need to. Not when you can post beauty.
To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo