WORDLESS WEDNESDAY 10.12.14

Sharing some Christmas Spirit this ~ Wordless Wednesday ~





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WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: PARIS IN JULY 9.7.14

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WEDNESDAY: WHITESPACE {QUIET} PHOTO POSTING 11.6.14

YOUR WEDNESDAY WHITESPACE INVITATION ~

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"I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.” 
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea




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WEEKEND REFLECTIONS on RIVER THAMES: WINDSOR ENGLAND 6.6.14

Relaxing with Weekend Reflections
this beautiful Friday.

A gentle reflection shimmering on the Thames' surface, reflecting obvious presence of a breeze ... { Windsor England}
May your weekend be both relaxing and refreshing ~  * Here are host James' Weekend Reflections directions  should you wish to play along~ [I hope you do!] * 1-Post a photograph taken by you that contains a visual refection.
2-Add your name, country and link to LinkyTools
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Weekend Reflections post.
4-Link Weekend Reflections to your post so others will know where to go if they want to join
5-Comment on other Weekend Reflections participant posts. *
Feel free to be creative. This meme is for any type of reflection photograph.
Water, glass, metal, eyes, windows, etc,
Reflections can be found almost anywhere.

This meme runs Friday 11 am EST through 11:59pm Sunday, so feel free to link your post anytime within that time frame. Join the fun! *

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THROUGH THE LENS THURSDAY: 'HOME' 29.5.14

Alison of Writing, Wishing and
Greta Funk of GFunkified 

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An open one year photo project invitation to post weekly prompt responses ,

Through The Lens Thursday is a self-improvement photography project that Alison of Writing, Wishing and Greta are doing this year.

Don’t forget to join their Flickr group or share your own posts if you’d like to follow along and work on your own photography!
And use the hashtag #throughthelensthursday to connect with others working on it, too.

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I'm joining today's prompt for week 22 being 'HOME' 

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“Home is the nicest word there is.” 

― Laura Ingalls Wilder

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 "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.” 

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

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Feel free to share your thoughts and links in response to my 'home' 
If you post your 'HOME' shots, I'd love to pop by and 'visit' !
* Upcoming prompts listed with next week 23 'SUNSET'

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SPRING: HOPE's DIVINE POSSIBILITY 23.4.14

In the Hebrew scriptures the promise of God's abundance is often conceived of
as blossoming in the desert.
In that harsh landscape, a flower bursting forth from the dry land is a symbol of
divine generosity, fruitfulness, and hope.   * #Hope is a stance of radical openness to the God of newness and #possibility. {tweetable}
* When we #hope, we acknowledge that God has an imagination far more expansive than we do. {tweetable}
* The fertility of spring speaks of an abundantly creative God who is at the source of the potent life force beating at the heart of the world. Created in God's image, we are called to participate in this generous creativity ourselves. Our own blossoming leads us to share our gifts in service to others. * Take time this week to meditate with gratitude on a flower, appreciating all of its qualities of beauty, how it simply is what it was created to be. Allow yourself to fill with joyful gratitude for the gifts of the earth. Open yourself to experience the fullness of this flower and all of the ways God delights in the beauty of blossoms.

Then shift your focus from the flower to yourself. Take this sense of wonder and awe at the beauty of the flower and imagine how God gazes with delight on the beauty of who you are.
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What aspects of your being can you imagine God relishing? What are the longings inside of you God is asking you to embrace?[Tweet]

Rest in this awareness of the joy and delight of God in your own beautiful blossoming for several minutes. Notice what new longings it stirs in you.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.~Marcel Proust [Tweet]

Perhaps you'd like to share your exploration and discoveries.
Please accept this as your personal Invitation to Poetry and/or Photography .

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With April comes a new Invitation for Contemplation. In the northern hemisphere, spring is slowly arriving with birdsong and blooming. Wherever we live on this beautiful planet, we can tend to the flowering that happens within after a season of fallowness. The outer seasons become a mirror for our inner experience.
The text with which we are praying this month is from the Hebrew wisdom book the
Song of Songs, which the ancient rabbis called "the holy of holies."
"Arise and bloom" is our theme,
tending to the ways our hearts and souls are breaking forth into blossom
after a season of fallowness and stillness.

I invite you to set aside some time this week to pray with the text below.  See these Lectio Divina guidelines.

Lean into silence, pray the text, listen to what shimmers, allow the images and memories to unfold, tend to the invitation, and then sit in stillness.

For see, the winter is past,

the rains are over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth,

the time of pruning the vines has come,

and the song of the dove is heard in our land.

The fig tree puts forth its figs,

and the vines, in bloom, give forth fragrance.

Arise, my beloved, my beautiful one,

and come!   —Song of Songs 2:11-13

After you have prayed with the text (and feel free to pray with it more than once – 

St. Ignatius wrote about the deep value of repetition in prayer, especially when something feels particularly rich) spend some time journaling what insights arise for you.

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LENT: REST 19.3.14

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 “Are you tired? Worn out?
Burned out on religion?
Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life.
I’ll show you how to take a real rest.
Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it.
Learn the unforced rhythms of grace.
I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”

Matthew 11:28-30

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For this is what Adonai Elohim,
the Holy One of Isra’el, says:
“Returning and resting is what will save you;
calmness and confidence will make you strong —

Isaiah 30:15

Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

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For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
In returning [to Me] and resting [in Me] you shall be saved;
in quietness and in [trusting] confidence shall be your strength. 

Isaiah 30:15

Amplified Bible (AMP)

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LENT: Day 7 Psalm 144.1-2 [11.3.14]

* Blessed be Adonai, my rock,
who trains my hands for war
and my fingers for battle.
 He shows me grace; and he is my fortress,
my stronghold, in whom I find shelter,
my shield, in whom I take refuge,
who subdues my people under me.

Psalm 144:1-2

Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)

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LENT: Day 6 [10.3.14]

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LENT: Day 4 8.3.14

Vision.  New beginnings. 

Past impacting future. Not it's determination.

Gratitude to God for this journey.  

Eyes to see.  Ears to hear.  Heart to follow ~

Lead on . . .

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Lisa Advent  and  JacquiAvery
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Are you photo posting during Lent?  Sharing Gratitude?

You're invited to add your Lent and/or Gratitude links of your Journey at host Lisa's below:

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 Sunlit spires of ancient Stone, Staffordshire,

 in England's Midlands.

Located equidistant from Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent

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St. Michael's, the church to the left in top photo,
was built in 1753. 

Notes of Stone's amazing historical importance HERE.

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