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Visual Meditation: I am Part of a Great Migration

I am part of a great migration

this is love - Rumi

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AWAKENING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT:

Bringing the Expressive Arts to Spiritual Direction

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2 Responses

  2. Christine–
    Those same saints are walking around Rite Aid here in Bend– a miracle of a different sort do you suppose?

    What a sweet, earthy reflection. I love it that the relics helped you open your eyes and really see for an instant.

    This is such a rich time of digging up fallow ground, of preparing the soil of my own once and future relic-ness.

    Much love to you–