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Phyllis Thomas: March 2012
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Friday, March 30, 2012. My meditations for Lent this year started on Ash Wednesday and continued throughout the season with daily scripture reading and thoughtful research. These images were responses to those meditations. I used thread and stitching in each image to unify the work as a meditative action bringing me back to the mending and healing of Christ’s death and resurrection. He provided redemption for his people; he ordained his covenant forever—. Holy and awesome is his name. Psalm 111.9. At fir...
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Faith Breezes: Hope and Grace
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Please Comment: Here's How! Wednesday, August 12, 2015. God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits,. To the woman who diligently seeks. When life is heavy and hard to take,. Go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions:. Wait for hope to appear. Lamentations: 3:25 and 28 MSG). 1 Go off by yourself. This is not a time for company. 2 Enter the silence. This is not a time for talk. 3 Bow in prayer. Connect with the presence of God. 4 Don't ask questions. PHOTOGRAPH ...
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Faith Breezes: The Author
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Please Comment: Here's How! I pondered for weeks when I had to describe myself for this blog. How would I do that without sounding ridiculous? I couldn’t, so I consulted the proper authorities - my two oldest grandsons. 8220;Tell me, guys,” I said, “if somebody asked you to describe your Mimi, what would you say? 8221; After being appropriately thoughtful, this is what they said. She loves her grandkids – “all four of us,” they hastened to make clear. She lets us do stuff our mom and dad wouldn’t. The gi...
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Epiphany 5: That All Be Made Well « The Painted Prayerbook
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Artist and author Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word, image, and faith. Laquo; Epiphany 4: Blessing for a Whole Heart. Epiphany 5: That All Be Made Well. Reading from the Gospels, Epiphany 5, Year B: Mark 1.29-39. He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up. What came was this: a blessing small enough to carry in the hand or in the heart. If you are in need, may this be for you a word in the wound, in the illness, in the ache. May you be made well. And All Be Made Well. Individual, ...
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lectionary « The Painted Prayerbook
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Artist and author Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word, image, and faith. Archive for the ‘lectionary’ Category. Laquo; Older Entries. So That You May Know the Hope. November 19, 2014. So That You May Know the Hope. Reading from the Epistles for Christ the King/Reign of Christ Sunday: Ephesians 1.15-23. So that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened,. You may know what is the hope. He has called you. 8211; Ephesians 1.18. Is not, in itself, sufficient to get me through. He writes in 1 Cori...
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Book Reviews | Hearts on Fire
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Past National Retreat Leaders. Find a Spiritual Director or Retreat Leader. Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, by Pope Francis. March 2, 2016. Review by Glynden Bode. This book is not about spiritual direction or retreat leadership. It is the encyclical letter from Pope Francis on our “common home” – and has much to say about living in community, and the intrinsic worth of each created being, regardless of purpose or personal benefit to another. Here are a few quotes:. Categories : Book Reviews.
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A Blessing in the Dust « The Painted Prayerbook
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Artist and author Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word, image, and faith. Laquo; Blessing of Elijah. A Blessing in the Dust. A Blessing in the Dust. Reading from the Gospels, Pentecost 7, Year C: Luke 10.1-11, 16-20. But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you,. Go out into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town. That clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’. This blessing is for those times. As you go,.
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Gospel of Mark « The Painted Prayerbook
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Artist and author Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word, image, and faith. Archive for the ‘Gospel of Mark’ Category. Laquo; Older Entries. And the Table Will Be Wide. September 30, 2012. Reading from the Gospels for World Communion Sunday. Proper 22/Ordinary 27/Pentecost 19, Year B (Oct. 7): Mark 10.2-16. 8220;Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it. And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them. Septembe...
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blessings « The Painted Prayerbook
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Artist and author Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word, image, and faith. Archive for the ‘blessings’ Category. Laquo; Older Entries. So That You May Know the Hope. November 19, 2014. So That You May Know the Hope. Reading from the Epistles for Christ the King/Reign of Christ Sunday: Ephesians 1.15-23. So that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened,. You may know what is the hope. He has called you. 8211; Ephesians 1.18. Is not, in itself, sufficient to get me through. He writes in 1 Corin...
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Epiphany 4: In the Realm of the Spirits « The Painted Prayerbook
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Artist and author Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word, image, and faith. Laquo; The Hospitality of the Book. A Habit of the Wildest Bounty: Feast of St. Brigid. Epiphany 4: In the Realm of the Spirits. I Know Who You Are. Reading from the Gospels, Epiphany 4, Year B: Mark 1.21-28. An unclean spirit. The uncleanness that akatharto. From the word akathartos. Is the opposite of katharos. Related to our word catharsis. Ritually pure, clean. The desert mothers and fathers of the early church rec...
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