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Holding, Letting Go... Opening to Sacred Play in Christ Consciousness Today YogaMass Author Gena Davis and I welcome participants in our first retreat together at the Grünewald Guild. We’ll practice yoga, we’ll practice art, we’ll practice Christ Consciousness. This image was inspired by darkness’s light, as my soul embraced the early morning play between the full moon and the bright snow. #vondadreesart

I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon in front of this small canvas, working with the waves and longing for peace. This morning Poet Malcolm Guite shared a tribute to St. Cuthbert, in whose honor the Lindesfarne Gospels were made. Malcolm’s sonnet closes like this: “...You roam the North just as you used to do; Always on foot and walking with the poor, Breaking the bread of angels in your cave, A sanctuary, a sign, an open door, You follow Christ through keening wind and wave, To be and bear with him where all is borne; The heart of heaven, in your Inner Farne.” Allowing Jacinda Ardern’s words to the grieving families of New Zealand to hover over the work of my Inner Farne felt right. #vondadreesart

“What might it mean for folk like you and me to wake, walk, wonder, and live each golden day differently? Much is said about ‘making a difference’, but when motivations and manners remain the same, nothing really seems to change. Perhaps the invitation of spring’s explosion is to be made different, from the inside out. ... Would you dare to dispel indifference by living lightly, as you shoulder the yoke of this day’s wonders and woes with rinsed eyes?” —Joe Grant “Inner opening...of the heart...is a posture of strength. This is the way to new life, to offer oneself in an act of heart opening, of vulnerability, of love.” —Gena Davis, YogaMass: Embodying Christ Consciousness #vondadreesart

“Harmony is the source of all manifestation.” —Hazrat Inayat Khan “Singing from your soul connects you with a wondrous power inside you. It bypasses the rational mind, opens your heart... It’s like falling in love. Singing ignites the entire electromagnetic field of your heart, switching on the whole lightbulb of the brain, and awakens your soul into a way of being where all and everything is possible.” —Chloe Goodchild One thing I do know is that when we sing a mealtime prayer at the Guild and close with a long, harmonic amen, the goosebumps are out-of-control abundant. A haiku to connect the ponder dots of the morning: Harmonic amens manifest resurrection in fleshy goosebumps. #vondadreesart

“There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.” —St. Óscar Romero “Through our tears we see the tears of God.” —Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son “...But we remember love, and how each act of cowardly violence can bring it out, multiply it for good. How the wave of hate, can yet be pushed back, by a love which grows in increments to flood the land.” —Ana Lisa de Jong, an excerpt from “Sacrilege” written in the wake of the tragic loss of life in Ana Lisa’s homeland of New Zealand #vondadreesart

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;...” —Gerard Manley Hopkins, God’s Grandeur “God keeps creating things from the inside out.” —Richard Rohr “...the World gradually caught fire for me, burst into flames; how this happened all during my life, and as a result of my whole life, until it formed a great luminous mass, lit from within, that surrounded me.... Christ. His Heart. A Fire: a fire with the power to penetrate all things—and which was now gradually spreading unchecked. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Heart of Matter #vondadreesart

“Focus on trust. When you trust that we are all part of something beautiful beyond our wildest imagination, you will find healing.” —Fr. Thomas Keating Trust is heart-and-soul food. holy connections mac and cheese, piano keys soulful harmony #vondadreesart

I am in you. You are in me. —John 15:4 Christ within and without... our deep, ever-evolving, spacious home. “Every river knows it belongs to the sky.” —Peter Mayer #vondadreesart

“The heart is the light of the word and the soul its brilliance. One sets the beat for the other to dance.” Rumi “Inner opening...of the heart...is a posture of strength. This is the way to new life, to offer oneself in an act of heart opening, of vulnerability, of love.” —Gena Davis, YogaMass: Embodying Christ Consciousness Heart and soul, I fell in love with you... One of my favorite things that Guild Founder Liz has shared with me is about the foolish nature of her and Rich’s dream to begin the Grünewald Guild. #vondadreesart

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