Nov 17 through Nov 22, 2019

A breath of fresh AiR (Artist in Residence) weekend at All Souls New London

Building Beloved Community

"Come" is a word I keep seeing, hearing and reading in a new light. Come to Community.

"Come to me, and I will give you rest" ~ Matthew 10:28

"Depth of Due Diligence and Determination that accompanies wisdom born out of humble trust in God. ~ Seeking Daily the Heart of God by Boyd Bailey source

"Entrance and Exit" poem read at Temple Emanu-el last weekend

"Faith expands our imagination and opens us to a universe with endless possibilities. It's the same with love..." ~ The Way of the Warrior: An Ancient Path to Inner Peace by Erwin Raphael McManus

"God writes spiritual mysteries on our hearts, where they wait silently for discovery" ~ Rumi 

~ Art 'The Rythm of Love' by Brenda Adams

Humility places in the heart a Hunger for wisdom...

I stirs up an appetite for wisdom's morsels... vs...
Junk food of worldly wisdom." ~ 1 Corinthians 20-30

Live in the newness of curiosity and discovery." ~ Deepak, Day 12: The Power of Curiosity and Discovery

Meredith Magazine arrived/delivered yesterday - Mary, you are doing amazing things, dear friend xo

"Not as a distant knowledge a knowledge of description but as an active knowledge by acquaintance. 

 thank you, Stephanie

Pablo Neruda (Chilean poet-diplomat and politician, 1904-1973): "In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones." qtd. by Marc Nepo, Book of Awakening, 11/15, "Dying into Now"

Quote from Book of Awakening, 11/16, was similarly reiterated by Rabbi Marc Ekstrand at Temple Emanu-el on Sunday,11/17, and in this Quote from 7/16/19, but I saw it 11/18/19. Interesting: "Once upon a time ... there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated."  ~ Terry Tempest Williams

 ~Art by Shijun Munns click here for source

Rooted in the centrality of Christ without which one remains captive."

"There's a sun in every person - the you we call companion." ~ Rumi

"Use the gifts we receive from the Spirit of God for others - for their flourishing, their aid and their encouragement." ~ Charles F. Stanley Passion and Purpose

Virtuous friendship
Where was it that I was reading about what a "virtuous friendship" is?
"eXpose whatever crisis you are in to your attendant Spirit..." ~ Charles F. Stanley

Yeats offers us is an insight into life on Earth. The great Irish poet suggests that crisis is an unexpected jarring of our ways that brings us into contact with our attendant spirit, original sense of genius... being in the care of something unseen but near... another definition of Wholes or God, another way of acknowledging the Tao, the unseeable stream we all swim in.~ Mark Nepo 11/3 Meditation Book of Awakening

Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over." ~ Luke 19:8