Genesis – Beguine Again

Dec222015 by a quiet walkNo Comments

Advent, Week Four, Love – Prayerful Tuesday

Advent, Anticipation, awareness, birth, Blessings, Christ Child, faith, faithfulness, Genesis, gift, God, Grace, Gratitude, Holy Mystery, Hope, Joy, Love, Mystery, peace, Poetry, prayer, reflection, Rituals, Shepherds, spirit, spiritual practice, Spirituality, Star Dust, Uncategorized, Waiting

And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 FAITH, HOPE, LOVE faith, hope, love in faith an elderly Priest and his wife waited for their first child in faith a maiden utters the words “Here Am I” in love a child leaps in the womb at the approach of the pregnant Mary in love a bridegroom takes a pregnant girl as his wife in love Mary lays her first born in a manger in love the angels sang and a star appeared in hope the shepherds came to the stable in hope Magi followed a star to kneel at the feet of a carpenters son Faith, Hope, Love all three were needed for the greatest of miracles but it was Love that conquered all -- Ruth Jewell, December 21, 2015 Meditations for a Mindful Advent Queen Anne ...

The Voice in the Wind – Prayerful Tuesday

"Life" Issues, awareness, Breath of God, Challenge, community, courage, Creation, Creativity, Creator, curiosity, Genesis, Grace, Gratitude, Grief, Hebrew Scripture, Holy Mystery, Letting go, life, listen, Nature, photo, Photography, Power outages, prayer, Rest, Windstorm

“. . . a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2b, NRSV I am sure all of you noticed we had a big windstorm 2 weeks ago. John and I lost our power on Saturday just before noon and didn’t get it back until after 3 pm on Sunday. For those of us in Edmonds that was a really long time. Normally our power losses are quite short due to the presence of the Hospital and the transit center so close to us, but not this time. What has been most frustrating for John and me is the lost of our internet, which we still don’t have, because we both have things to do. While I gladly gave up internet access when we were on Holiday in the spring I was not quite so happy without this time. I have things to do such as writing for my blogs, ordering pet food, doing activities for ...

In The Beginning . . . – Prayerful Tuesday

Astronomy, Blessings, Creation, Creator, Genesis, gift, God, Grace, Gratitude, Healing, Hebrew Scripture, Holy Mystery, Home, Journaling, Joy, justice, Lectio Divina, listen, meditation, Mystery, Nature, Photography, prayer, spiritual practice, Star Dust, The Big Blue Marble, Uncategorized, violence, Visio Divina, world

Genesis 1:1a In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, Genesis 1-2:4 The Message (MSG) 1 1-2 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. 3-5 God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared. God saw that light was good and separated light from dark. God named the light Day, he named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning— Day One. 6-8 God spoke: “Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!” God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two. 9-10 God spoke: “Separate! Water-beneath-H...