(photos of doors on St. Charles Ave and the Loyola Campus in New Orleans)
-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts
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
A Blessing for Creativity*Spirit of Holy Imagination,we ask you to bless our visionwith the wisdom to see what is possible.Help us trust our desire to createthrough color, word, shape, gesture, and song.When our fingers trembleat picking up a pen or marker,connect us to the joy
A Christmas Blessing This blessing dances at the doorwayof light and dark, knows both as sacred:fertile womb space, miracle of blooming.This blessing breathesthrough those moments of laborwhen you too birth the holyinto this fragile, luminous, hurting worldas Mary did two thousand years ago,eyes wide, hands
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love the doors!!! (not to brag), but i told tess how new orleans made so much more sense to me now that i have seen paris. the influence is so strong there. i, too, was drawn to photograph doors…tess was drawn more so to balconies which i hope she will share soon!
Thanks for all of the very gracious words, these doors have been very meaningful to me as well!
thank you so much for these beautiful doors that invite Spirit.
Blessings!
These are beautiful as is the great old lady of NOLA.
Beautiful, stunning, mixed messages… thank you!
Such depth of contrast. Beautiful, thank you.
Christine. these are lovely. I a going to meditate on them awhile because I keep coming back to them. They seem to be tapping Spirit.
Thank you, once again, for such a special start to my day.