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vonda drees art

wonder, wisdom & warmheartedness

Tag: mercy

February 8

Posted on February 8, 2022 by vondadrees

When I was a kid, during the summers my dad served as a quartermaster on an army base. My family… Read more February 8

February 7

Posted on February 7, 2022 by vondadrees

The last day of my “Seven Years of Wonder” retrospective is February 10, which is also my daughter’s birthday. It’s… Read more February 7

February 3

Posted on February 3, 2022 by vondadrees

With one week remaining in this seven year retrospective, there is deep love being stirred by the memories of creating… Read more February 3

January 29

Posted on January 29, 2022January 29, 2022 by vondadrees

These collections of images seem to be growing sweeter every day. Each image evokes an “ohh… I remember that” and… Read more January 29

January 25

Posted on January 25, 2022 by vondadrees

“Echoes of mercy, whispers of love” You may recognize that phrase from the song, “Blessed Assurance” … Cue the goosebumps… Read more January 25

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“The work of the people, the organic, grassroots, feet-on-the-ground work . . . must reach across cultures, socio-economic status, and skin color. We must all work together . . . to fulfill prophesies that call people back to unity, that call healing back over the land, that listen to her as she tells us that, though she is sore, she is still speaking, that though she is bruised, she will still wake us up and heal us.” —Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native - Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God “Truth is somehow both the work of uncovering what we didn’t know was there, and the work of seeing what we knew was there the whole time. . . . [S]eeing the truth leads us to the good work that waits for us, for the endless possibilities to create what we did not know could be created.” —Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native - Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God “How might we have conversations, even online, that create space for us to better care for ourselves and for one another? Self-care is a constant journey to tether ourselves to what can heal us, but to get to healing, we have to acknowledge the wounds that put us here in the first place. We do that for ourselves individually and we also do it together, remembering that our wholeness is connected to our belonging.” —Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native - Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God “I remember smelling bacon and biscuits from my Grandma Avis’s kitchen. The matriarchs of both sides of my family were the sort of women who brought you into their everyday spaces with kindness and grace. They spoke like people who have seen things, who have lived difficult lives and have survived. We remember that their stories live on in our own, years after they’ve passed on… . . . We must remember that the work we do today, the work of both honoring our ancestors and asking questions about what work they left for us means that we acknowledge that this is ultimately part of creating a better world. This means there is always work to do. This means that as we shape the future, we remember the past because our ancestors lived it and shaped it, just as we live and shape our world today.” —Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native - Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God “We know about the communion tables in the church sanctuary, but what about the communion tables outside? What if communion is also found in the sacred places that have always held room for us? The trees that have always said, ‘Come sit in my shade and rest,’ and the water that says, ‘Come bathe and drink and be refreshed,’ and the grasses that say, ‘Come and dance with me,’ and the seasons that say, ‘Come learn what it means to live a whole life.’” —Kaitlin B. Curtice, Native - Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God “If we truly believe that God surrounds us, we believe that prayer is an everyday experience of being alive. It may not look the same for me as it does for you. You won’t practice the way I practice as a Potawatomi woman, but when you step outside and engage with the world in quiet listening, prayer will happen, and it will take on its own way of being for you.” -Kaitlin Curtice, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God

You can also view my work on Pinterest. Here's an image from my recent journaling through The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.


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