I discovered this quote while working this morning on my book about using expressive arts in spiritual direction. This is exactly why I do the work I do.
Visit this week’s Poetry Party for your own dose of creative living!
I discovered this quote while working this morning on my book about using expressive arts in spiritual direction. This is exactly why I do the work I do.
Visit this week’s Poetry Party for your own dose of creative living!
Pilgrimage Blessing*Journeying One,you help us to navigate the path, placing one foot in front of the other, even when the way ahead is not visible. We set aside our desire for maps, GPS, and guidebooksand surrender to an inner knowing and directionsparked by the deepest
We welcome you to submit your reflection for possible publication in our Monk in the World guest post series. It is a gift to read how ordinary people are living lives of depth and meaning in the midst of the challenges of real life. There are
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for CJ Shelton’s reflection Matching the Beat of the Universe. In the simple delights of Nature’s repeating cycles there is much comfort and
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Wonderful wonderful post! Thank you.
Oh. my, YES! Christine. This is it!
“This is exactly why I do the work I do.” Me, too! the “work” being both what i do for myself personally and also love sharing with others. :-) i’m with thymekeeper, i need to chew on that work “poiesis” for a while too! xoxo
i can only imagine how the confident stranger in SS will emerge even more after an “awakening” :-)
Great quote Beth.
SS, like Carolyn I also love the image of the confident stranger living within you.
Thymekeeper, “Poiesis” is quite a rich word indeed!
Thanks tinkerbell!
“The soul finds its form in art.”
How beautiful. And true. This post resonates for me, as well.
I too resonate with these words, and wrote about something similar, “Not A Luxury.” I especially like the word “poiesis” ~ think I’ll chew on that one a while!
……Sunrise Sister – I am enchanted by your phrasing: finding a ‘very confident staranger living right in the middle of me…just waiting to be released….’
And, she’s content!
Beautiful; thanks for sharing!!
i’m so glad you shared this, christine…many thanks!
This post is resonating, yet can’t really put my finger on why…….although since I began, within the last year, renewed forms of creativity, writing, painting, I find a very confident stranger has been living right in the middle of me for a very long time just waiting to be released. That stranger now contentedly writes and paints with little worry about what anyone “thinks” of the creations.
xoxo
‘Some people never go crazy. What horrible lives they must lead.’ –Charles Bukosky