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Join us Friday night (3-11) to #support NAS Recove

Join us Friday night (3-11) to #support NAS Recovery Solutions & River Community Center! Featuring #DuelingPianos and @WeldonLong! If you can’t make it, you can still #Donate! Link in bio and story 👆🏼

#supportrecovery #pianobarsdenver

#ashtagged with my coconspirator in #cr365. Remem

#ashtagged with my coconspirator in #cr365.
Remembering who we are

#Remember you are stardust and earth. Join us at 6

#Remember you are stardust and earth. Join us at 6:30pm mt (in person or online) for a short service of remembering who we are, and receive #ashes of remembrance as countless others who share the earth do the same!
And if you would like the daily Lenten meditations, message me for a pdf of the 1st week’s.
#ashwednesday #ashwednesday2022

We’re doing an #AshWednesday Service! Join us fo

We’re doing an #AshWednesday Service! Join us for the imposition of ashes, and a time of remembering ourselves—returning to the truth of our unequivocal belovedness!
If you would like to receive the daily Lenten Meditations (weekly pdf), excerpted from our organic Creative Recovery curriculum, DM me.
#cr365

Praying protection for Ukraine, and that truth wil

Praying protection for Ukraine, and that truth will out for the people of Russia.
… the greatest of these is love…

Piñata for the one-armed woman 😂Friends are #h

Piñata for the one-armed woman 😂Friends are #healing. CR365🧡 @askdouglas73 @askdouglas
#cr365 #juniormints

Centering Prayer-Sit: From the Heart On Monday, I

Centering Prayer-Sit: From the Heart

On Monday, I will have surgery to repair my shoulder. It involves tying the frayed ends of my Supraspinatus tendon around a screw that will be secured to the bone, filing off some protrusion, and then stitching the bicep back up a bit higher on its tendon… The recovery will take about 6 weeks and will likely be accompanied by a fair bit of pain…
I’ve been strategizing about how I can do everyday things one-handed with my non-dominant arm. And there is just no way I will be able to put my hair in a pony tail by myself. It seems a trivial thing to be concerned about. Heh. Yeah…
One thing I’ve come to know about myself is that I have a hard time spending the day doing nothing. Part of my strategy is devising ways I can prop up my computer or ipad to “just get few things done while I sit around…”
But my rotator cuff will not heal well if there is any stress placed on it. And do you realize how much your arm moves just walking up the stairs? Or, with the opposite hand, catching the device sliding off your lap?
As I contemplate the need for just being still, not concerning myself about anything other than healing, I relax into the thought of binging on the latest season of Doctor Who, and actually feel super excited about it. And then I realize just how not present I can be to the people around me—to just love and enjoy them. And recognize how valuable this time with you is!
always 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 are made 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 #healing #doctorwho

#CreativeRecovery Pain is an invitation to share;

#CreativeRecovery Pain is an invitation to share; sharing it, an act of love. #love
#cr365 #bettertogether #breathe #holypain

#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

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