Eternal Echoes

creativity....

I haven't blogged for ages, well over two weeks and that's a long time for me, this has partly been due to moving house and the chaos and exhaustion it brings, and if I'm honest partly because I've been spiritually drained for a number of reasons. Today though has been a reminder that creativity brings me life, today we got around to beginning to bring order to what will be a creative/prayer space and a spare bedroom when needed. In that room were a collection of boxes containing fabrics, candles, paints, pens, pastels, music books, icons, pictures of various types, art books, paper of all kinds, prayer books, incence burners, and general creative stuff. 

Some of that stuff has been packed away in files and folders and I've haven't looked at it for months, some for even longer. Some of the boxes contained prayer journals reminders of the ebb and flow of my spiritual life...

And while the room currently looks like something has exploded in it, it gives me hope, this evening we have moved shelves around, some are filled and some are not, we want to put a table in there for painting/drawing and a sofa bed and chair. I've found my music stands and guitar stand so they will have a place too. We'll put pictures on the walls find room for a music system too...

And it will probably not be the neatest room in the house, but that's OK...

 

with Jesus in the liminal spaces…..

…through this time

of change

some questions still

remain unanswered,

things lie

unresolved

when I had

planned their

resolution…

 

there are surprises

some good

some hard to swallow….

 

..and yet when I

pause to consider

your call afresh

I note that

you do not point to

the easy path…

 

…nor do you promise

the worldly ease

that I so often seek…

 

..what you give is

deeper, and

more enduring….

 

love that casts out fear,

peace that passes

MY understanding,

and living water

to refresh the dryness

of this soul.

 

I need you

every day,

every hour,

every moment…

 

in you,

and only you,

I place my trust….

 

Picture: Hands Of Creation by Evelyn Patrick

for meditation

"Shepherdess and Flock at Sunset," Jean Francois Millet

Thanks to Lutheranchick for the picture

Lindisfarne Scriptorium-Mary Fleeson

A number of people have remarked on the clip art on my blog, it comes from the Lindisfarne Scriptorium and is by author and artist Mary Fleeson.

A lot of it is contained within her book Life Journey-A Call to Christ Centered Living, here the beautiful art work is brought to life through paryers, meditations and suggested actions. Marys spirituality is deeply rooted in Christ whist remaining practical and thoughtful. The book sits on my desk as a daily inspiration and aid to prayer.

Yake a look at the Lindisfarne Scriptorium for yourself.

Just an illusion

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