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 Trust in Abundance*Spirit of Generous Abundance,remind us there is always more than enough—enough food, enough love, enough time, enough resources.Help us to see how our disconnected patterns of livingamplify our scarcity.Bring us into the joy and challenge of communitywhere bread divided multiplies, where laughter
Christine Valters Paintner had a conversation on Creativity, Chronic Illness, and Contemplation with Mike Petrow on his podcast The Healer with a Thousand Faces (also available through audio podcast channels). Joins us in Lent 2027 for the retreat The Wisdom of Our Wounds: Chronic Illness
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Jaqui Eicher’s reflection and poem. After reading Christine Valters Paintner’s poem, “St. Gall and the Bear,” I responded in writing to the prompt:
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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