“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off your souls.” Pablo Picasso
Dust
I have a dream…
“Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that cannot fly. “ Langston Hughes
What are the dreams you are holding onto?
Hospitality
In Genesis 18, Abraham and Sarah receive three visitors with generous hospitality. Both, the three visitors as well as Abraham and Sarah are cared for. The Psalmist asks in Psalm 78:19 “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?”. Hospitality is shaped by culture, values and faith.
What does hospitality look like these days when we cannot host each other in the ways we are used to? What creative ways to extend hospitality have you seen or come up with?
Slowing down to listen
“I will never understand the silent dying of the green pie-apple tree if I do not slow down and listen to what the Spirit is telling me, telling me of the death of trees, the death of planets, of people, and what all those deaths mean in the light of love of the Creator, who brought them all into being, who brought me into being, and you.” Madeleine L’engle, walking on Water
There is forced slowing down from outer circumstances and there is voluntary slowing down, to be and to listen. What emerges as you slow down and listen?
Vigils
What does it mean to be a person of prayer?
The hours of prayer in the monastic tradition begin with Vigils between midnight and dawn. We awaken to join where God is already at work. We watch, we wait in the dark like a seed in the ground, a child in the womb, an owl on a branch.
How does your prayer begin? How do you look for and join what God is already doing?
Nobody sees…
“Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small. We haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.” Georgia O’Keeffe
What do we take the time to see? What do we avoid seeing? Where might we be invited to take more time to see?
With the Eyes of the Heart 