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Tag Archives: light
Seeing through new eyes…
via Healing Welcome I had an opportunity to participate in an interview for my own project, Faith from the Margins to the Web. It always amazes me how these things work: something will happen (in this case, someone canceling with … Continue reading
Posted in Spiritual journey, work and life
Tagged bible study, Christianity, epiphany, healing, hope, inspiration, Jesus, light, memory, ministry, miracle, reflection, religion, serving, sight, spirituality, welcome
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(En)lighten
Three birch candle lamps flicker on the wooden dresser next to a vase of light-strewn branches. A scarf from my closet back home is spread across the surface, a makeshift forest emerging from branches of gray reaching through the ivory … Continue reading
Branching
This afternoon, I am noticing things. I feel the breezes of California that are perfectly warm and yet delightfully cool. I hear the coo of doves, and the scampering of birds and squirrels around me. I am sitting where a … Continue reading
Posted in Spiritual journey, work and life
Tagged community, darkness, faith, formation, growth, labyrinth, light, reflection, shadow, spirituality, travel
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New Light
Here in Virginia, snow is a rare treat, or at least, a treat for me. I grew up in Western New York with snow as the standard issue landscape for at least five months of the year. Now that I … Continue reading
Posted in Spiritual journey, work and life
Tagged calling, change, Lent, light, ministry, Parenting, questions, sacred space, snow, transformation, vocation
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Candle Light
Yesterday, on my way back home from our mother-daughter road trip, I asked my daughter if she wanted to stop at the Yankee Candle outlet that was en route. She shares my love of candles and we thought we might … Continue reading
Posted in work and life
Tagged candle light, candles, Contemplation, Grief, light, loss, memoire, prayer, remembrance, spirit, spirituality
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Christ as a Light
Canticle (Prayer of St. Patrick) Christ, as a light illumine and guide me. Christ, as a shield overshadow me. Christ under me; Christ over me; Christ beside me on my left and my right. This day be within and without … Continue reading
Posted in quotations and reflections
Tagged canticle, celtic spirituality, Christianity, compline, darkness, faith, light, photography, prayer, stillness
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Super moon
I am writing outside tonight, enjoying the faint breeze on a warm, southern summer night. I have been awaiting tonight’s supermoon to make an appearance just over the tree line, beckoning me as always. As I sit and wait, I … Continue reading
Posted in Spiritual journey
Tagged calling, compline, Contemplation, darkness, faith, God, light, moon. supermoon, nature, photography, reflection, spirit, spirituality, vocation
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Journeying 6: Holy Saturday (First Light)
Light cannot see inside things. That is what the dark is for: Minding the interior, Nurturing the draw of growth Through places where death In its own way turns into life. In the glare of neon times, Let our eyes … Continue reading
Posted in Lent 2014
Tagged beginnings, Contemplation, easter vigil, holy saturday, light, light and shadow, resurrection
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Stillness 6: Light and Depth
“For by the light of understanding within your light I have tasted and seen your depth, eternal Trinity, and the beauty of your creation.” ~St. Catherine of Siena
Posted in Lent 2014
Tagged Christinity, faith, Lent, light, love, St. Catherine of Siena, stillness, trinity
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