Here I am in Pittsburgh at Quilt Market for the first time ever. To say I'm excited is a wee bit of an understatement. Sometimes by Step - Rich Mullins came to mind as I reflected. It's fascinating thinking about faith and quilting and how I teach. It's all about the steps and being on … Continue reading it’s all about taking steps
Comparatively speaking
Feelings often give a clue into our interior life. Feelings want to, need to be acknowledged. Acknowledging feelings doesn't mean giving in to them or giving them power over you it's just accepting them for what they are. Feelings of inadequacy plague me. They always have and probably always will. Instead of fighting them I … Continue reading Comparatively speaking
Pondering at its finest
Drinking the Cup After firmly holding the cups of our lives and lifting them up as signs of hope for others, we have to drink them. Drinking our cups means fully appropriating and interiorizing what each of us has acknowledged as our life, with all its unique sorrows and joys. How do we drink our … Continue reading Pondering at its finest
Motherhood/Nurturing
NOTE: The excerpt from "On the Dignity and Vocation of Women" is long - the most important bit (to me) has been highlighted (bold/italics). Please feel free to skip down to that, then read my personal comments. In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, … Continue reading Motherhood/Nurturing
Have no anxiety – Be confident
Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice!Your kindness* should be known to all. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and … Continue reading Have no anxiety – Be confident
Enjoying the creativity of others
Over the weekend I went to the Northern Star Quilt Show - both days as Sunday I worked in a booth with a friend. Saturday afternoon I stopped by one of the vendors to look at her gorgeous fabrics. I love them because the colors are clear. Then she had a small grouping of fabrics … Continue reading Enjoying the creativity of others
A Morning Prayer of St. Therese of Lisieux O my God! I offer Thee all my actions of this day for the intentions and for the glory of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I desire to sanctify every beat of my heart, my every thought, my simplest works, by uniting them to Its infinite merits; … Continue reading
Play time
Or Showing up to do the Work I must confess to listening to Elizabeth Gilbert's first TED talk on more than 10 occasions. I go back to this every once in a while for a nudge in the right direction - in seeking God in what I do with the quilting and writing. There are … Continue reading Play time
Service of Beauty
The artistic vocation in the service of beauty 3. A noted Polish poet, Cyprian Norwid, wrote that “beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up”.(3) The theme of beauty is decisive for a discourse on art. It was already present when I stressed God's delighted gaze upon creation. In … Continue reading Service of Beauty
Creative-ness
"That is why artists, the more conscious they are of their “gift”, are led all the more to see themselves and the whole of creation with eyes able to contemplate and give thanks, and to raise to God a hymn of praise. This is the only way for them to come to a full understanding … Continue reading Creative-ness
A Quilter's Heart 