Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
A Leaf in the Wind
The first excericise in our Art, Vocabulary for the Soul retreat this last weekend, we responded to the question: “How do you find rest?” Next we traded paintings, and in the second excercise we painted a second painting as a response to the painting we had been given. These two exercises together help us focus on…
Read MoreA Twist on Psalm 13
When I read the old testament – particularly the prophets I see this God with an achingly Big Heart yearning for his people to “turn to him and live” (Amos 5). God doesn’t ‘need us,’ but he does long for a relationship with us. He went so far as to die for us.I was thinking…
Read MoreTry a Response Painting -Tapestry by Corrie ten Boom
One of the painting exercises we did at the Art and Faith Retreat on Feb 5-7 was listen to the Tapestry Poem by Corrie ten Boom and respond with a drawing. A response painting is a painting or drawing based on your own personal response to an event, a song, another painting as as in…
Read MoreSea lions’ Reaction to an Umbrella
In Newport, Oregon, there is a set of docks just for the sea lions/seals. There are maybe 50 or more sealions there. I don’t know all the difference between harbor seals and sealions. At Yaquina Head there are harbor seals that looked lighter, grey and smaller than the ones we saw in Newport on the…
Read MoreWater
Water Waterflowing, living,the essence of life;we cannot live without it.We are drawn to it:the roaring of the surf,the lapping at the edge of a lake,cascading down the mountainside,running and tripping down a river,a trickling brook.It delights our hearts,overflowing us,washing over us,reaches down inside our souls,renewing us.God isthe living water,the Spring of Lifein Him we have…
Read MoreIsn’t It?
Isn’t It? Water, we take it for granted, we turn on the tap, we let the water run, we can do what we want, it’s ours isn’t it?What if… the snow didn’t come? the spring rains failed to come? the river ran dry? we used up the aquifer?What if… it didn’t rain because…
Read MoreEmpty Nest
Empty Nest, Winter of my Soul Changes. New things come, old things pass. It is hard to let go. It is hard to say good-bye to what was,Treasured moments; the good, the badYet letting go is part of living.It is part of loving.There will be new beginnings;New memories;New changes.Such is the circle or spiral we live in.We cannot hold…
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