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
Dearest dancing monks, artists, and pilgrims, We are absolutely thrilled and delighted to release the first day of our new video podcasts for the Cultivating Seeds of Liberation prayer cycle! We are so grateful to Wisdom Council member and dear friend Betsey Beckman for all her
St. Francis at the Corner PubApproaching the door, you can alreadyhear his generous laughter.He stands on the bar upside down for a momentto get a new perspective on things,a flash of polka-dotted boxersas his brown robe cascades over his head,sandaled toes wiggling in the air
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Natalie Gould’s reflection A Wooden Cross from Assisi. In October 2000, I traveled to Assisi, Italy. During a two-and-a-half-mile walk through 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