Tag: faith
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tending
if there’s too much algae in this lake my hands will tend to that to pull out what is not in one’s heart, not possible, thankfully in love, we move afloat in a dance anyway
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A Letter To Honor Poet May Ziadeh and Two of Her Poems, Eighty Years Later
Featured again today on the blog with affection💕🙏… for May Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021 after her first poetry book, Dream Flowers May Ziadeh writes: “I hope that after my death someone will do justice to me and extract from my small writings the truthfulness and sincerity it contains!!” b. Feb. 11, 1886 – d. Oct. […]
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Looking Up into Heaven, Not Leaving Yourself Behind
an artwork I’d come across last year * Tea with God and many and you. 🙂 🎶 A song for today’s Catholic Feast Day: The Assumption of Mary into Heaven, with elaborate layers of prayerful lyrics, harmony, dynamics, and meditative, acoustic instrumentation. I find myself moved too, calmly and as if in a time, lifting […]
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Rumi’s Moon
12/8/21 Post featured from the Archive: Rumi continues with more poetry…to linger upon a paper book, this beautifully pure poem photoed with sudden blush…Start the day with this simplicity; pick it like a dream to be within while very much living. Aug. 12, 21 pm I didn’t plan this matching with the altar, my clothing, […]
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A Post You Can Listen To
I am talking about my current writing project and the creative process, just under 20 mins, meant to be relaxing. 🙂 You can click the link below to listen to it on SoundCloud completely free. Just to clarify, after I remembered it was poetry month in April coming up, I also forgot awhile and realized […]
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Beyond Fear
Today I took a step away from fear, and into nature. I moved close, closer than before, to the flowers and trees that were here before I arrived at this house, and I tried to create art with my camera. Letting go of fear and tuning into God, I found that the honey bees buzzing […]
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Why I Write Stories—My Response Surprised Me!
For months and months, hours, days, and months skidded past me, and I was reluctant to sit down at my writing desk and dream my stories onto paper. I felt distracted by my environment, which has recently changed, but even more so, I felt distracted by my thoughts and motivations. I kept asking myself, why […]
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Trust
June 3, 2012 Love is emotional: trust is intuitive.Emotions go on changing every moment — they are in a flux; you cannot rely upon them —but trust can become a great foundation.Love helps you to reach to the place where trust is possible.Without love, trust is not possible.Love is almost like a bridge which can collapse […]
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Give, Receive, Release
What I’ve Received: This weekend brought time with family; my husband and I went to his grandparents’ house and they lent me a pile of books. (You might remember a post I wrote titled Reading Over My Shoulder. In that post, I quoted from Gladys Hasty Carroll, the author of one the books Grammy lent […]
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Five Minute Friday: Beautifully Brave
This is my first time participating in Five Minute Friday hosted by The Gypsy Mama. The rules are to write for five minutes without editing or over-thinking your writing. It’s like “finger painting with words.” I wrote this exercise by hand first and then typed it up. ***I am brave. I am cowardly. Could it […]
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Thoughts Over Tea
I spend the evening with a pot of tea and some poetry. I listen to water flowing over pebbles, the sound of my breathing, the room dimly lit with the gentle golden glow of a desktop lantern. Early this morning, a cardinal waited for a pause in the snowfall before she left her hiding place; […]
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If I Had Wings and I Could Fly, Well, I’d Still Walk with You
How often we are angry with ourselves for not being exactly where we want to be in our spiritual lives. At least I know I have desired to be walking with both feet in heaven, still here in this beautiful, imperfect world, longing to be walking with the feet of Jesus, when I really should […]
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Surprise Discoveries
Sometime last year, I took home a library book and when I sat down to read it, flipped open the cover, out fell a worn prayer card. I had never found anything tucked inside a library book except for the little stamped cards that tell when the book is due, so this was a nice […]