Renting Can Be Creating
We are encountering the demands and barriers which have reached incredible heights since the last time we searched for a rental. How do we survive in such a greedy world? Conventional wisdom bases itself on material options of wealth, position, … Continued
The Content of Expression
It is not only what you say and do that makes your contribution to the world. It is first simply that you say and that you do, whether or not anyone else listens, reads, or observes your deed. You allow … Continued
Particles Dancing Together
I am feeling our need to view ourselves with humility as particles of the incomprehensibly greater Whole. This causes our amazement to expand as we realize the glorious mystery of all particles moving together in the creation of … what … Continued
Get Out to Remember
I must have been wishing at the beginning of last month for the vacation coming in the middle of this month. When I made the image above memories of water rushing over rocks and logs emerged in my contemplative painting.
Prayer Done in Crafting
Though the crafting practice has traveled with me many years, just last February I wrote about the contemplative craft (see “Handwork Contemplation”) and those thoughts have stuck with me as a fresh, counterintuitive way of personal growth. So, the new … Continued
Thy Will Be Done
It seems that many of us have given up on “The Lord’s Prayer”. It has become a thoughtless mumble in a ritual that seems too removed from our main life. Many no longer know what The Lord’s Prayer is because their forebearers forgot about it already. In the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples
Tiny Lights Make Commotion
The dizzying lights and action transport us to the carnival playground of color in motion. Every tiny, bright light and abstract shape contributes to the fun commotion of the whole.
The Person from Beyond
The institutional church over the centuries has “rarified” the phenomenon of Jesus’ Passion, making it more of an abstract, technical, theological symbol elevated away from its relevance to current life on earth.
Handwork Contemplation
Turn away from your screens and remember your sense of touch, the faculty of eye-hand coordination, the joy of making something tangible. To engage in that primitive activity which fascinated you as a child is to reawaken an essential part of being human. It gives your inner person an opportunity to feel your connection with other elements of earth and to exercise your position as a person in the image of God.
A Short Film for the Season
Here is help to pause with nature and reconnect with Life beyond our stresses. Contemplative music accompanying photos we have collected in nature offer eleven minutes of retreat. Many people remember this discipline at this time of year when Lent … Continued
