… watching for the brushstrokes of God
In her chapter in the book Embodied Spirits Rosalie Norman-McNaney speaks of birth quakes. And I was intrigued. The shaking and shifting and opening of a quake not to swallow or destroy but to bring new life.
What is breaking forth from your soul?
Both the monk and artist are edge dwellers, ones who commit to living in fertile border spaces and who call the wider community to alternative ways of being beyond the status quo… Living on the edges means recognizing those places and experiences that do not offer easy answers, those fierce edges of life where things are not as clear as we hope them to be. ~ Christine Valters Paintner, Abbey of the Arts
How do you hold mystery and questions?
New life is emerging, pushing through the earth with abandon… bursting forth in lush greens, bright yellows, vibrant pinks and brilliant whites
How is new life emerging in you?
“To speak, and to write, is to assert who we are and what we think. The necessary other side is to surrender to these things — to stand humbled and stunned and silent before the wild and inexplicable beauties and mysteries of being.” ~ Jane Hirshfield
How do you surrender to the mystery?
These Sandhill cranes sometimes peck at the window as if they want to be invited in. I wonder what stories they could tell, carried through migration, fluctuating with the seasons and the tides, and across the threshold into God’s imagination.
What stories accompany you? What stories want to be invited in?
Creativity is a mix of making something happen and letting something happen. One is still, the other active, one is waiting and listening, the other probing and moving.
How does your creativity emerge in that tension?
With the Eyes of the Heart 