Word for December: Silence
It is in the silence that my hope is, and my aim. A song whose lines I cannot make or sing sounds men’s silence like a root. Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. —Wendell Berry, excerpted from “The Silence” Advent blessings my dear dancing […]
Invitation to Poetry: Give Me a Word
Welcome to Poetry Party #74! I suggest a theme/title and invite you to respond with your own poem. Scroll down and add it in the comments section below or join our Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks Facebook group and post there. Feel free to take your poem in any direction and then post the invitation on your […]
Give Me a Word random drawing winners!
A deep bow of gratitude to everyone who participated in this year’s Give Me a Word! We had almost 700 responses and it was so inspiring to read through the submissions. It is time for our prize drawing (although you are free to keep sharing your word for 2014 here)! I will include the name […]
Community Lectio Divina: Give Me a Word
With January comes a new invitation for contemplation. This month I invite you into a lectio divina practice with a short reading from the desert fathers and mothers. Here at the Abbey, the last few weeks we have been focusing on receiving a word for 2014 to guide us and challenge us through the year. How Community Lectio […]
Give Me a Word 2014: Fifth Annual Abbey Giveaway
Share your Word for 2014 In ancient times, wise men and women fled out into the desert to find a place where they could be fully present to God and to their own inner struggles at work within them. The desert became a place to enter into the refiner’s fire and be stripped down to […]
Invitation to Poetry: Give Me a Word 2013
Welcome to the Abbey’s 64th Poetry Party! We are making a little departure this month from our usual format where I select an image for you to illuminate with your words. This month the invitation is to write a poem inspired by your word for the year (and even though that drawing is over, you are […]
Give Me a Word 2013 random drawing winners!
More than 800 people shared their word for 2013! It is truly amazing and inspiring to read through the submissions, so consider pouring a cup of tea and perusing what others have posted. Please feel welcome to share your word, even though the date for being entered into the random drawing has passed (see winners below). […]
