I am heading off to the desert for a time of Lenten retreat and leave you with some rainy day images from the Kubota Japanese Garden here in Seattle. The desert mothers and fathers will be my companions for this journey. My heart is ready to move into silence to listen for a deeper voice. I’ll let you know some of what I discover upon my return. (Click here for a visual meditation on tulips.)
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
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to our Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Tina Thompson’s reflection on the path to Roman Catholic Women Priesthood. Have you heard of the international movement, Roman Catholic Women Priests
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The ice is finally out.
Hallelujah!
Namaste
There -the dew drop
There -the circling,shimmering waters
Life moistening life.
endless pools of Love……….
Dear Christine,
All your photography is amazing, but the two water photos and the (last) stone photo especially touched my soul. Thank you for this gift.
May you be further blessed in the desert.
Lovely images — and a reminder for me to never be long without solitude.
Each image,
exquisite beauty,
opens my heart,
again,
and again.
Thank you. May Ancient Love accompany you in the desert Christine.
Those water images just made me gasp! Thanks for sharing your photography gift with us…
Each image is so perfect, unique in it’s manifestation of the Divine. Thank you for reminding me to look ever closer.
Thank you for these images and signs of spring!
lovely