by Lane | Advent, Devotional, Lectio Divina, Spiritual Disciplines, Spiritual Practices
On this celebration day of Epiphany, I invite you to travel with the Magi through Matthew 2:1-12 using imaginative prayer. The Magi Journeying (Les rois, mages en voyage) by James Tissot God created our imagination and uses it for our good and His glory....
by Lane | Advent, Writing
Advent, Mystery, and the Art of Spaciousness: Writing with Gaps, Living with Gaps Advent arrives quietly. God comes gently in the stillness. He doesn’t rush. It’s a season filled with unfolding mystery. God says, “My Presence comes in the spaces you do...
by Lane | Advent, Spiritual Practices
Every camellia bush bursts forth with buds, waiting to blossom. Deep under the earth, roots hold seeds and bulbs secure, waiting for Spring’s arrival. Dragon-breath exhales hang in the air as I release my breath at first light. The cold air declares winter is here....
by Lane | Advent, Poetry, Writing
I sat in Marilyn McEntyre’s Advent poetry class last Tuesday evening. My brown eyes burned, fighting to stay awake. Up way past my normal bedtime as I am an early bird to the nth degree, I wrestled with the tiredness I felt at that moment. Yet my heart bound joyfully...
by Lane | Advent, Poetry, Writing
This December blog is brought to you by the word Behold with a hint of prose. Behold. In autumn Sun greets the day full of reds and oranges, golds and yellows. Leaves – once green, crisp up, curling in the drying air loosening their grip upon...
by Lane | Advent, Writing
“Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot.” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer For the one who creates, waiting may be the hardest space to occupy during the creative...
