Poetry Party #46: Monk in the World

Christine has resumed her Poetry Parties at The Abbey of Arts: she provides an image and theme, we offer our poems.  Read the poems shared and offer your own!

Flinging sacred intent hither and you

Entering holy tussles with expectation

Finding beauty alongside brokenness

Holding space as sacred and full of possiblity

Such is the heart of a

Monk in the World!

A Bounty of Goodness and Green!

My daughter and her fiance tend the land at Green Gardens ~ they work long days and nights growing vegetables that are “Certified Naturally Grown” which they sell at local markets and to CSA members.   Whether at the Market where their table is overflowing with goodness or out at their farm standing next to the gardens there is always an abundance of green goodness!  I’ll let the photos tell the story…

Rows and rows…

and more rows, each 200 feet long

The new High Wind Tunnel that holds 420 tomato plants.  That’s a lot of tomatoes that will be hand-picked!

See how tall the tomato plants are!

Market bounty…

Kale – the all-time favorite of one of the farmers!

The farmers, framed by an abundance of produce!

May bounty fill your life this season!

Gifts of The Hermitage

Recently a few of us from our church gathered at The Hermitage for a retreat… the gifts were simple and profound.  I’m sharing a few of them that I received through the lenses of my camera:Blessed by the stones

Come to me… and be still

Glory

Beauty

Cleansed by Your love

Radiance

Come, follow me …

Our departing gift

Receiving Resurrection: An Occasional Glimpse, #4

We tuck

our memories, our hopes

in Your embrace,

wait for

new blossoms

from the Womb of Life.

Greening of the Cross,

Pine Island Church, May 9, 2010

I Went Down to the River to Pray

I went down to the river to pray

Studyin’ about that good ol’ way

Asking how to let go

Be carried by the flow

Oh, show me the way

Receiving Resurrection: Occasional Glimpse, #3

It’s Opening Day

Vendors and diners gather

Delighting in food!

Receiving Resurrection: An Occasional Glimpse, #2

Breaking chains of  ‘shoulds’,

oppression, abuse, demands ~

Our souls are set free!

Receiving Resurrection: An Occasional Glimpse, #1

“For the Beauty of the Earth”

For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies,

For the gift of another day, for the gifts which this day offers,

For the love which from our birth, over and around us lies,

For Your love that sustains us each day and for Your invitation to share Your love with others,

Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For the wonder of each hour, of the day and of the night,

For Your gifts of light and darkness, for joy in sharing the Light, for Faith to embrace the darkness,

Hill and vale, and tree and flower, Sun and moon, and stars of light,

For awe in the tiniest buds and the vast universe, for Your love that spans the cosmos,

Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind’s delight,

For this season of Spring and Eastertide, for all the new life that is blooming within and around us,

For the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight,

For the inner knowing and outer expressions of Your grace and mystery,

Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,

For companions on this journey of life, for grace and forgiveness needed to live with one another,

Friends on earth, and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild,

For the blessings of community near and far,

for the ongoing work of creating community where divisions run deep,

Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

For Thy church that evermore, lifteth holy hands above,

For Your call to each of us to serve Your church and all of Your people within and beyond the church

Offering up on every shore, her pure sacrifice of love,

For Your presence in all places, calling all faiths to walk the way of Love,

Lord of all, to Thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.

Hymn by Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, 1864

Prayer response by Cathy Johnson, 2010

With Easter Eyes: Easter Sunday

Make way for new life

Emptiness begets fullness

Love is the last word

Through A Lenten Lens: Day 40

Oil and spices

Burial and homes, we are in

Holy Waiting