Earth Monastery Prayer Cycle: Day 1 Evening Prayer from Abbey of the Arts on Vimeo.
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Dearest monks and artists,
Celebrate with me!
In addition to our Earth Monastery Prayer Cycle being released this fall, I am delighted that my second poetry collection – The Wisdom of Wild Grace – is also launching with an online event hosted by Paraclete Press tomorrow on October 12th. (Register here) I would be most grateful if you would consider writing a review on Amazon or Good Reads. Every review and recommendation helps the work spread.
Read an excerpt from the introduction to the book:
When I long for expansiveness and connection to something far greater than my own daily concerns and struggles, a walk by the sea or in the forest expands me.
We live in a time when Earth is threatened on so many fronts by human development. Slowly we seem to be awakening to the truth that our personal well-being is intimately woven together with the well-being of all creatures and plants. Many of us might have been taught by our religious traditions that humans have dominion over nature or that animals don’t feel pain or have souls.
The more we cultivate our own intimacy with the wild, the more we open to different truth. Wildness doesn’t mean we have to go out into the forest or travel long ways, the wild is a place within us.
Each poem here is a doorway into this inner wilderness, a call to sit and be present to what we discover beyond the borders of our neatly controlled worlds. Wildness is vulnerable, risky, spacious, and full of possibility. And this is where I invite you to sit and rest awhile dwell with me…
We also have the second audio and video podcast from our Earth Monastery Prayer Cycle series ready for you! The links are above to Day 1 Evening Prayer. Thank you for the many kind words of support and the donations to help sustain this work and allow us to continue producing these kinds of resources. Your generosity humbles us.
With great and growing love,
Christine
Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, REACE