Morning Prayer 32/100. Spiritual sketching

Always a doodler and lately drawn to serious drawing, I’ve loved discovering spiritual sketching. Scribbling and doodling — just making marks on the page — have always had appeal. Yet, I recently noticed the several sketch pads and colored pencils and drawing pens I’ve collected but never put to use. So I signed up for […]

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Morning Prayer 31/100. Now and then

“Now and then” suggests separation and, at the same time, connection. Now: this very moment that is ever changing as the where and when of reality; and then: time gone by and so literally gone, except in the memory. And there’s the throw-away phrase “now and then” which means “every once in a while, almost without thought, a […]

Posted on August 28, 2015 at 9:51 am by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Morning Prayer 30/100. Here and now.

Here and now — this place at this instant — is reality. Nothing else is. Here and now can be very hard to stay in. What happened 5 minutes ago was reality then. The turkey and cheese sandwich I made then is still reality, sitting here on the desk beside my laptop. However, the act of […]

Posted on August 27, 2015 at 3:21 pm by Tim · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Morning Prayer 29/100. Being grounded

Being grounded began early this morning. I set out to run before sunrise. I was immediately conscious of the ground. The rhythm of my footfall sounding solidly against the asphalt. I was thankful to have firm ground to run on. To walk on, to stand on at other times, for that matter. Crossing a side street, I was freshly […]

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