When night falls

Tuesday

Grace Wins, in the end. Grace Wins

There are days

You are amazing

 

You are amazing, 

and I hope

that even if 

I'm the only one

who tells 

you,

you believe it.

We Still Dream Your Dream

Valentine's Day Cards Available

These are sample cards that I created for my etsy web site. If you would like any cards feel free to head over to my site or just pay pal me 3 dollars and I will mail them with an envelope directly to your house. I have created a tab on this site for just that purpose.

In any case these were great fun to make. I used gelli prints and Courtney provided the words. She is my secret valentine this year!

My friend Laura sent me this text and so I had to send her back a card to match.

I love our adventures

Markers, watercolor and pencil

Time to buy some Valetines Day Cards

 

Visit my etsy site to buy your cards today! 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/artandwords2015 

An essay by Richard Rohr on Deep Ecumenism hit home.

Deep Ecumenism     
Friday, January 9, 2015
Although I am clearly a Catholic, I would hope that my brothers and sisters from other denominations and faiths would also find much to guide and inspire them in what we will try to say this year. The ecumenical character and future of religion is becoming rather obvious. Either religion moves beyond its tribal past or it has no chance of "saving the world"! The "emerging church" is gathering the scriptural, contemplative, scholarly, and justice-oriented wisdom from every part of the Body of Christ. It is really the religious side of globalization. [1]

Matthew Fox, surely a prophetic teacher, describes the importance and value of deep ecumenism in his book One River, Many Wells. He writes: "From Hinduism we hear: 'Many are the paths of humans, but they all in the end come to Me.' ... In the Bhagavad Gita, God says: 'I am the thread that runs through the pearls, as in a necklace.'

"Rumi, the Sufi mystic from the Moslem tradition, grounds the likeness found in every mystical tradition to the depth of the experience of the Divine one touches in a particular tradition. Love is the key.
            For those in love,
                        Moslem, Christian, and Jew do not exist....
            Why listen to those who see it another way? --
                        if they're not in love--their eyes do not exist.

"From the Buddhist tradition, Thich Nhat Hanh speaks of the centrality of going deep if we are to do inter-faith work when he says: 'Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others' traditions.' Yet, to get to the point of seeing the beauty and value in others' traditions, one must look and listen deeply into one's own. One must practice some path along the journey that leads to depth. One must enter the well of mystical experience" (One River, Many Wells, pp. 16, 18, 22).

And so this year we draw deeply from the mystical, Wisdom well, from the Christian tradition--which is my own--and from many other faiths too. Next week we will look more closely at the Wisdom way of knowing, that is not only intellectual but full hearted and embodied.

[1]Adapted from Things Hidden: Scripture As Spirituality, p. 4

Winter wanders in

winter wanders in with
intuition and grace
she knows she only has a little while
to linger in this place

by Courtney Hands

Art by Sandra Moreano

forgiveness

forgiveness

for me,

forgiveness is a black crow

who visits every morning

      though i (try to)

         ignore him

i wonder

how the hell he doesn't

give up,

and one day just not show

but

i'm grateful he keeps

coming

because even though

i'm not ready

today

i know i

     soon will be

words by Courtney Hanes

I've Decided

I've decided
I'm
going to sit here
on the shore
of this lake
until things seem
less murky
and I
feel more safe.

by Courtney Hanes