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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Not One
Called Home
Let us not become confused.
We are not one moment.
We are not one event.
We are not one circumstance.
We are greater than any one moment.
We are greater than any one event.
We are greater than any one circumstance.
We are a culmination, a conglomeration, and a collection
existing well beyond a singular occurrence.
Do you think trees cry leaf tears…hence Fall?
Do you think trees cry leaf tears~hence, Fall?
I’ve always wondered that in the Fall
When it rains & there’s a chill in the air
Do you think trees cry tears
and if so do you think it’s cleansing?
I find tears very cleansing
Kind of like the earth is bathing in leaf tears
Do you think trees cry leaf tears~hence, Fall?
1302. If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred. ~Walt Whitman
In order to experience everyday spirituality,
we need to remember that we are spiritual beings
spending some time in a human body.
~Barbara De Angelis
The human body is am amazing masterpiece. With the senses we see, taste, and touch the world, drawing its mystery inside us. With the mind we probe the eternal structures of things. With the face we present ourselves to the world and recognize one another. But it is the heart that makes us human. The heart is where the beauty of the human spirit comes alive. Without the heart, the human would be sinister. To be able to feel is a great gift. When you feel for someone, you become united with that person in an intimate way; your concern and compassion come alive, drawing some of the other’s persons world and spirit into yours. Feeling is the secret bridge that penetrates solitude and isolation. Without the ability to feel, friendship and love could never be born. All feeling is born in the heart. This makes the human heart the true jewel of the world. ~John O’Donohue
Have joy and peace in the
temple of your senses.
~John O’Donohue
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. ~Proverbs 4:23 ✝
**Drawing by Catrin Welz-Stein
Not everyday is…
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People who really…
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When we recognize…
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I think one…
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Dance like…
I recently posted a piece in which I encouraged people to train themselves in finding a blessing or blessings in every day, and several commented that it was not always an easy task. And I agree that it is challenging at times, but I remember after I retired in 2001, when I was dealing with some very difficult pain-filled days and diappointing realities, that I found a way to turn around my choices to be angry and feel sorry for myself. It came after an eye-opening encournter with a homeless man. If he could sit there homeless and with no legs in a wheelchair and smile warmly at me and ask God to bless me, I decided that regardless of how bad a day I had had, at the end of it I would deliberately sit until I could write down 5 things that had blessed me, warmed my heart, or at least made me smile that day. And admittedly they weren’t always earth-shatteringly great blessings, but even if it was just the sweet song of a bird, or a pretty flower in my yard, or autumn leaves falling, I managed each day to find at least 5 good things that had happened in the course of that day’s time. Then after a year or two if became a challenge to look for those kinds of things as my day unfolded. Finally it became a habitual and daily mental practice. So it can be done and even if it’s only in your heart, pretty soon you’ll find yourself dancing like noboby’s watching!
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Sacred Touches 