Tag: Noticing
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Beauty & Emotion in “The Great Pottery Throw Down”
Crying over pottery? A reflection on embracing our emotions and being surprised by beauty
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An Epiphany!
The story of the magi and some helpful (and fun!) spiritual practices at the start of the year.
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The Thing about Goldfinches
A poetic reflection about changing through the seasons of the year and through life inspired by a class about winter birding.
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Embracing God’s Presence: Care, Attention, and Sharing
Now!Give heed!I am teaching: Observe,live,enter… The God of your ancestors is giving you… Keep the Lord your God,observe diligently…show wisdom and discernment. Surely, is god so near…whenever we call. Care,and watch closely.Neither forget the thingsyour eyes have seen,nor let them slip –Make them known! Reading this poem after I’d gone through the blackout poetry process…
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Echoes
Sometimes, the echoesreverberate so thunderously they threaten to drown outthe pleasant conversation at hand. © Annabelle P. Markey This poem came to mind while I was praying and walking on Friday, August 16. It’s a meditation on those moments when the “coulda, shoulda, woulda” voices rise unbidden in an overwhelming crescendo. In those moments, which inevitably…
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Ripe
It takes time for the oblate berries to reach their matte indigo hue, basking in the June sun. They’re so tempting thoughwhen they’re almost therehaving warmed from pale greento bright, maroon-ish purple. Sure,they’ll darken morein the berry bowl but they will always bepuckeringly tart. If only I have the experience, foresight,will,patience,to hold on –one…day…more… Oh!How sweet the taste! © Annabelle P. Markey
Journeying Together 