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#CreativeRecovery Difference is an invitation to w

#CreativeRecovery Difference is an invitation to wonder. We are more, together. #joy
#cr365 #bettertogether #unique #breathe #infinitepossibility

Centering Prayer-Sit: As Our Ancestors Did It see

Centering Prayer-Sit: As Our Ancestors Did

It seems that we often have a narrow view of what creativity means. We imagine crafting, paint work, and frilly embellishments. But if I say that I believe in a Creator-God, and that I bear the very image of that God, surely being creative means considerably more (especially since I’m not crazy about crafting and frilly things..)
“Ada Lovelace, who, in 1843, ‘wrote the first paper on computer science, including the earliest complete computer program,’ postulated in a letter that creativity is the art of discovering and combining — the work of an alert imagination that ‘seizes points in common, between subjects having no very apparent connexion, & hence seldom or never brought into juxtaposition.’” (Maria Popova)
Lovelace also says it’s the ‘groundwork for faith,’ and is “a God-like and noble faculty….it teaches us to live in the tone of eternity.”
To live in the tone of eternity. That sounds important. And enduring. It also sounds inclusive—making connections between one thing which isn’t found with the other. And perhaps this is precisely why we have such difficulty with creating a better, more just society: so many are loath to be connected with too many who are considered other.
I am in need of paying attention, and giving priority, to my creative instincts, my Divine attributes already at the core of my being. Thank you, for dwelling with the Creator of Everything in these moments, outside spacetime, to discover and connect with the same Spirit, and to remember that we have more than enough to fully live into our creative giftedness. Stay with me…
And, at the end, we will make an intention out of the creative imagination we’ve cultivated in, labored through this time together.
[listen/watch to the end for the entire meditation] #center #centeringprayer #centeringprayersit #protest #becreative #ourancestors #ancestors

#CreativeRecovery You are evidence of the Divine.

#CreativeRecovery You are evidence of the Divine. Know the #joy of it today.
#cr365 #youaredivine #gifted #breathe

Excerpts from our Creative Recovery 365 Daily Medi

Excerpts from our Creative Recovery 365 Daily Meditations Workbook for today (developed by @askdouglas73 and I). This month’s theme: Inclusion. This week’s theme: Positive Regard.
#creativerecovery #creativerecovery365 #inclusion #positiveregard #healing in #community #healingincommunity #recovery

The entire quote is prescient: “Conventionality

The entire quote is prescient:

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.”
HT @greersnyder #charlottebrontë #janeeyre

Excerpts from our Creative Recovery 365 Daily Medi

Excerpts from our Creative Recovery 365 Daily Meditations Workbook for today (developed by @askdouglas73 and I). This month’s theme: Inclusion. This week’s theme: Positive Regard.
#creativerecovery #creativerecovery365 #inclusion #positiveregard #healing in #community #healingincommunity #mentalhealth #mentalhealthrecovery #recovery

Centering Prayer-Sit: sent the shield-bearer in fr

Centering Prayer-Sit: sent the shield-bearer in front

I’m thinking about the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life. The protagonist, played by Jimmy Stewart, has big dreams, imagines exploring the world and learning new things. But one thing after another prevents him from doing any of those things. Still, he is compassionate and gifted in management and creating possibility and opportunity for others. But it diminishes the control of the town’s oligarch who, in turn, sets out to destroy him. Stewart’s character grows a family, grows a business, and grows tired of fighting the system. So, when it looks like he might be arrested for something he didn’t do, he gives up on living. An angel grants his wish that he’d never been born, and he’s in a unique position of seeing all that did not happen for good because he wasn’t there to be a part of the making of it.
The point of the story is, each of us matters. No matter what we accomplish—or don’t—our very existence is a force for creative goodness in this world. Most of us would agree with the premise. The problem is, we are notoriously bad at making connections. We might know a thing to be true, but when the proverbial shit hits the fan, we often forget just how much our presence in this world impacts so much more than we can even imagine.
On this dreary, cold day, I’m finding it difficult to muster the strength to be all that others seem to expect me to be and do… So, I really need this reminder that I matter, and my unique, drawn-from-the-Source-of-Everything gifts are a force for goodness and right-making in this world. So thank you. Thank you, for dwelling with the Source of Everything in these moments, outside spacetime, to drink in the same Spirit, and to remember that we have more than enough to fully live into our creative giftedness. Stay with me…
And, at the end, we will make an intention out of the creative imagination we’ve cultivated in, labored through this time together.
[listen/watch to the end for the entire meditation]
#center #centeringprayer #listen #bewhoyouare #innerstrength

Excerpts from our Creative Recovery 365 Daily Medi

Excerpts from our Creative Recovery 365 Daily Meditations Workbook for today (developed by @askdouglas73 and I). This month’s theme: Inclusion. This week’s theme: Positive Regard.
#creativerecovery #creativerecovery365 #inclusion #positiveregard #healing in #community #healingincommunity #mentalhealth #mentalhealthrecovery #recovery

A Gift For It. 2nd Sunday after Epiphany. #preachi

A Gift For It. 2nd Sunday after Epiphany. #preachingwithcovid #preachingfromhome #dojustice #create #lovecreates

Centering Prayer-Sit: I’m Listening A day –

Centering Prayer-Sit: I’m Listening

A day – a week, a year… of uncertainty and feeling out of control, it is easy to lose strength, feel helpless. My mind is cloudy and cannot see things as they are, let alone hear truths that speak love and grace—only the nearest, most insistent voice that doesn’t know me.
That’s why Maria Popova’s meditation this week resonates with me today. “In the end, the measure of our strength is in how we face the fact that we are simply human — mortal, vulnerable creatures of uncommon creativity and courage, body-minds born to die and to make meaning of our fragile existence not by clinging to the self but by practicing our various arts of unselfing: love, creative work, transcendent communion with the rest of nature”
… clinging to the self, vs practicing our various arts of unselfing… Doesn’t mean to become less of the self, rather, like unwrapping a present, we open ourselves, a bit at a time (because the sudden exposure might induce a shock, of sorts), to a mutual revelation-creation with all that we are a part of. It is, in a way, a paradox, that by loosening my grip on the idea of myself, in the exposure to loving and being loved, creating and being recreated, I become more of myself. And you do too.
An epiphany. Just so, in this time of epiphany, we welcome vulnerability to the revelation-creation unselfing in Jesus’ presence. And together practice those various arts: “love, creative work, transcendent communion with the rest of nature.”
Unself with me, this 2nd week after Epiphany, the light shining on the beauty in this creative act. Stay with the Mother of everything, and be loved. Just see.
And, at the end, we will make an intention out of the creative imagination we’ve cultivated in, labored through this time together.
[listen/watch to the end for the entire meditation]
#center #centeringprayer #listen #see #create

Centering Prayer-Sit: Anything Good Today is Epip

Centering Prayer-Sit: Anything Good

Today is Epiphany Eve, the Twelfth Night. Christmastide traditionally extends 12 days from Christmas until Epiphanytide which begins Jan 6. Tomorrow then, is Epiphany (the light shines), which marks the revelation of Jesus (at baptism) as from God. It is meant to be a sacred day, but almost certainly, recalls the quite unsacred—profane, even —events of 1 year ago. Important to redeem.
The earliest version of the song about the 12 days was found in the 1780 book, *Mirth With-out Mischief*, and likely a ‘memory and forfeits’ device to test the recall of each phrase. Assertions it is really meant to explain the tenants of the Christian faith, particularly under persecution, always returning to the partridge in the pear tree, which is Jesus?, is untrue. To me, 12 drummers drumming to remind us of the 12 points of doctrine in the Apostle’s Creed might make sense in that remembering 12 points of doctrine is like an incessant beating of drums…
Whatever the case, I so appreciate that for a person of faith, we have this extended time to celebrate and contemplate in a way that has nothing to do with frantic gift-buying. And today, while often marked by feasting and partying, sits on the eve of revelation: Jesus is who he says he is—the embodiment of God, the Mother of us all.
Even now—suspended in time, outside of time, we listen. we see. Epiphany. And we welcome Jesus’ gaze on us.
Wait with me, this twelfth night, unflinching under that gaze. Stay with the Mother of everything, and be loved. Just be.
And, at the end, we will make an intention out of the creative imagination we’ve cultivated in, labored through this time together.
[listen/watch to the end for the entire meditation]
#center #centeringprayer #goodness #epiphany #twelfthnight #bealight

May 2022 be a year of #wonder and #creative, crest

May 2022 be a year of #wonder and #creative, crest-ing graces that heal and make us more!
Happy New Year!

#newyear #newyearsday2022 #grace #healing

The Prince of Peace and Our So-called Rights: We j

The Prince of Peace and Our So-called Rights:
We just happen to be taking three days’ vacation in Glenwood Springs right now, but our two adult kids are home. The parking lot behind Lakewood’s Hyatt House is the Target pick-up location wherein we can be found far more frequently than I care to admit. It is a weighty thought experiment: that instead of delaying our Target pickup order until today, my daughter went Monday afternoon as she intended, and the shooter decided to turn his gun southward rather than northwesterly. Of course, this did not happen. I thank God that it didn’t. Yet, this kind of musing always forces me to meditate on what it is, exactly, that I believe about God’s direct providence. God wasn’t any less present at the Sol Tribe or Lucky 13 Tattoo Parlors than any other location along the shooter’s route, including the Target pickup lot. And that is precisely it, isn’t it—that God is present whenever and wherever we gather breath. And it is here that by pondering the what-ifs we gather also a sense of being present in the drama, present to the reality, entering the reality of the dead and their loved-ones. And participation in that space-time, in the spirit-to-Spirit-to-spirit communion of prayer then becomes actionable: Intercession. Powerful. Provident. Perennial.

It is also in this eternal space that all that divides us, the politicized or guilt-producing or straight up selfish, hateful attitudes have the potential to be suspended. The way of John of the Cross’ sense-less-ness, the secret passage (my house being now at rest). Though the gentle hand is as a wound, it releases us from anything other than the Lover and the Beloved, transformed. Transforming. Even a moment in this embrace of pure love is potent enough to alter our view—and (re)arrange our intercessions. It must. If we believe what we say we believe about God’s great love for us and a reality in which Emmanuel is, well, a reality.

And then, everything else about this God-With-Us reality must also follow… (to continue reading, link in bio)
@clarkplaysbass
#justice #peace #princeofpeace #swordsintoploughshares

#ActsOfKindness #AdventCalendar Day24: Bake cookie

#ActsOfKindness #AdventCalendar Day24: Bake cookies for a friend &/or Sing a carol at someone’s door.
#advent #adventwreath #bekind #bake #christmascookies #sing #carols #christmascarols

#ActsOfKindness #AdventCalendar Day23: Donate some

#ActsOfKindness #AdventCalendar Day23: Donate some gently used toys.
#advent #adventwreath #bekind #donate #gentlyused #gentlyusedtoys

Centering Prayer-Sit: In the Thoughts of Their Hea

Centering Prayer-Sit: In the Thoughts of Their Hearts
On the shortest day of the year, I ponder the carol, Do you hear what I hear? what a question. It assumes that you might hear something different – or nothing at all. It seems, with all our lack of attention and half-listening – or ignoring each other entirely, that it might be important to always lead with this question. First, it becomes an invitation to be present enough to listen for something. It also offers a presence that doesn’t assume you will hear a thing the same way I do.
After a grueling session with clients today in which one desperately wants to be understood and accepted, while the other can only defend herself, I find this question both instructive and filled with such grace and peace.
It also highlights Joseph’s presence in the Christmas narrative as one of listening—a willingness to hear the fantastical pronouncement by the angel, and to attend the inner listening while witnessing Mary’s great faith. Here, again, Lucille Clifton doesn’t disappoint. Her poem about joseph —also visceral, evokes the embodied out-of-body phenomenon that he observes: joseph
something about this boy
has spelled my tongue
so even when my fingers tremble
on mary
my mouth cries only
jesus jesus jesus
Every time I read this, I become verklempt. This holy, bloody, mystical, messy event—suspended in time, outside of time. you can’t help but listen. Do you hear what I hear? a mother’s cry, tearing tissue as she issues this infant, who releases breath, his own cry—new life: salvation.
Do your fingers tremble when you hear that cry? Listen with me, this 4th week of Advent, with an attentive ear. Stay with the mother, and the adoptive father—a steward of God-with-us. What will your own cry be?
And, at the end, we will make an intention out of the creative imagination we’ve cultivated in, labored through this time together.
[listen/watch to the end for the entire meditation]
#center #centeringprayer #advent #joseph #listen

#ActsOfKindness #AdventCalendar Day22: Call someon

#ActsOfKindness #AdventCalendar Day22: Call someone just to say hello.
#advent #adventwreath #bekind #callsomeone #sayhello

#Ponder the profundity of Mary's experience; visce

#Ponder the profundity of Mary's experience; visceral, human--and eternal: creation, recreation, and deep abiding Love.
#recreation #advent #mary #lucilleclifton

On this shortest day of the year, entering the lon

On this shortest day of the year, entering the longest night, we wait. Notice the Josés and Marias in your midst. Pay attention to where Jesus is gestating, ready to birth new life, saving us from ourselves--to become more of ourselves! Wait. And just notice. Even the darkness is as light....
#everettpatterson #joséymaria #notice #longestnight #wait #advent

#ActsOfKindness #AdventCalendar Day21: Invite some

#ActsOfKindness #AdventCalendar Day21: Invite someone to dinner.
#advent #adventwreath #bekind #dinewithme

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