… watching for the brushstrokes of God
Describe the greatest and most memorable, joyful moments from last year. How did you feel? Who was there with you? What were you doing? What smells, sounds or tastes do you remember?
What dreams does it invite for the new year?
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I played with some new paper recently that acts completely different with watercolor. We enter a new year guided by old patterns on a new surface. What paths may we be invited on? How will we listen and watch for them?
What a waste it is to be surrounded by heaven, by a sky ‘made [brilliant] by Angels wings’ and to be unaware of it. Perhaps the first step is that we really should want to unearth God in our midst… [to] let the mundane become the edge of glory, and find the extraordinary in the ordinary.“ ~ Esther De Waal
How do you look for possibility not perfection?
[When] the ghost of loss gets into you, may a flock of colors, indigo, red, green and azure blue, come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. ~ John O’Donohue
What losses are heightened at this time of year? What spaces of wonder open up?
Advent…coming…totally unexpected and disruptive…beyond our imagination…arriving with the words “Fear not”.
Are we truly ready to lean in?
We read and hear and sing and ponder the words of the Prophet Isaiah “prepare the way of the Lord, make straight a highway….and the glory of the Lord will be revealed”.
How do we prepare?
With the Eyes of the Heart 