Showing posts with label Blessing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blessing. Show all posts

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Christmas Day: Something Beautiful, Something Good from Joy

Pink Turks Cap, December 2025


 

                    May joy be born in you.

                    May joy take root in you.

                    May joy be scattered along your path.

                    May joy be the light in your eyes.

                    May joy become a dear friend. 

                    May joy be the gift you bring.




Monday, December 22, 2025

Fourth Monday of Advent: Something Beautiful, Something Good from the Duck Pond

Lake Tomahawk, Fall 2025
Black Mountain, North Carolina

 

Yesterday was the winter solstice. People I love walked a labyrinth or spiral path to mark the day. A sign of our inward and outward journey. 

On a visit to North Carolina in the fall, I remember watching this duck at sunset and the beautiful ripples that encircled him on the water. His own spiral path. As he glided across the lake, he stirred the sunset colors all around. As above, so below. 

Bless us as we follow the path that is ours.
Bless us as we stir all the colors of life.
Bless us as we create ripples that go where they will.
Bless the Lord, who encircles us in love. 



Saturday, December 13, 2025

Second Saturday of Advent: Something Beautiful, Something Good from the Good Shepherd

Artwork by Nancy Thomas


                   

                    May the blessings of these Advent days be yours.
                    May you learn to watch and wait with the Good Shepherd. 
                    May you learn to see yourself and others with steady love. 
                    May companions fill your world with warmth and delight.
                    May you know the nearness of angels.
                    May you hear the song of the redbirds. 




 

Monday, December 1, 2025

First Monday of Advent: Something Beautiful, Something Good from a Neighborhood Hawk

Neighborhood Hawk, November 2025

 


May you know the blessing of an unhurried walk on a cloudy afternoon.

May you know the blessing of meeting someone face to face, eye to eye and unafraid.

May you know the blessing of perfect stillness that comes before perfect flight.

May you know the blessing of wonder in your own neighborhood.

May you know the blessing of watching and waiting together.



Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Christmas Day 2024

Gingerbread House Ornament, December 2024



 
Wishing you a place
where your heart is light and free
at home in great love




Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Advent, Day 18: Connections

Web in the morning light, December 2024


 

Bless the shining strands
almost invisible, yet
they connect us all






Saturday, December 14, 2024

Advent, Day 14: One leaf, five blessings

Yellow leaf, December 2024


                  
  
                    May sunshine find you on a gray afternoon.
                    May you show up completely as yourself.
                    May you keep holding on - until it's time to let go.
                    May you be renewed and rain washed.
                    May you know that you are a source of delight.




                    
                

            

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Advent, Day 10: Wonder

"Wonder", December 2024

 


May every corner of your heart be filled with wonder. 





Monday, December 2, 2024

Advent, Day 3: A Blessing



 

Hibiscus on the back porch, December 2024




May you discover
the blazing beauty at the 
center of your heart





Saturday, September 21, 2024

A Blessing

Comal River, September 2024
Gruene, Texas


            May you find joy in the blue sky.
            May you delight in the song of the river.
            May you breathe peace in the shelter of reaching trees.
            May you borrow the strength of enduring stones. 
            May you lift your face to feel the breeze coming off the water.
            May your heart know the spirit of refreshment.







Monday, August 26, 2024

Blessings

Sunrise at Lakeview, August 2024
Lakeview Methodist Conference Center

 

                                        Blessings of the misty morning.
                                        Blessings of the deep evergreen.
                                        Blessings of the brushstroke sky.
                                        Blessings of the waiting pond.
                                        Blessings of the becoming heart.




                    
                    
            

Saturday, July 27, 2024

A small bouquet of blessings

Cone Flowers, July 2024


                    
                    May you pause and admire beauty wherever it appears.
                    May you see what comes with warming sun and quenching rain.
                    May you be surrounded by vibrant and true companions.
                    May your heart burst with love given and received.     
                    May you discover the loveliness of your own backyard.




Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Blessing

Hibiscus, July 2024





May every corner of your heart be filled with the brightness of love.




Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Love



 
Monarch on Fennel, June 2024




May every corner of your heart be filled with God's radiant love.



* A beautiful monarch emerged from her chrysalis just minutes before this photo. She is about to take her first flight around the backyard and over the fence. She was the last of 10 caterpillars we brought inside to foster through their transformation. I never tire of seeing new life right before my eyes.


Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Blessing

Dawn Dances by Ann McCarty


 


May you be swept up
in the festive music of
your authentic life








Friday, December 16, 2022

Peace

Morning Light, December 2022



                    May peace fill every corner of your heart.
                    May peace fill every corner of my heart.
                    May peace fill every corner of the world. 



Monday, September 19, 2022

Blessing

Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis, September 2022



 
Your sunset brilliance
grows more vibrant day by day,
bless your unfolding





Thursday, July 21, 2022

Beauty

Neighborhood Peacock, July 2022


 

May beauty fill every corner of my heart.
May beauty fill every corner of your heart.
May beauty fill every corner of __________'s heart.


Sunday, May 29, 2022

Encircle us

White Dinner Plate Hibiscus, May 2022




In the circle of
your unfailing compassion
we can be made new






Sunday, May 15, 2022

Sabbath Blessing

Mimosa, May 2022




May every corner of your heart be filled with God's effervescent grace.