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Spring Retreat Day

3/25/2016

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Are you needing a day of rest and reflection, a time to experience this ever-changing season of early spring? Are you curious about the prayer practice of contemplative photography?

Come spend a day with me at Pathways Retreat Center, looking for sparks of light in their woods and having time for reflection in the newly renovated retreat house, as we take time to see with the eyes of the heart.

I am leading a contemplative photography retreat April 16, from 9:00 to 3:00, with lunch provided. Connect here to register through Pathways and to see more details.
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Spring is by definition unpredictable! These are a few photos for a small sampling of the mix of blossom, dried seed heads, new growth and even snow there can be. All come from the middle of April, but in different years. What will this year surprise us with? Come see!
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Crocus Light

3/21/2016

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For liturgical churches, purple is the color of Lent, the season we are now in, the forty days plus Sundays leading up to Easter. The word itself comes from the Old English word for spring, and is related to various Germanic languages meaning the lengthening of days. These crocus celebrate the purple and glow with the spring light.
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Crocus Rhythms

3/13/2016

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Last Tuesday I stepped out my back door and was surprized to see a whole clump of early crocus had sprung overnight. All this week they have danced through a rhythm of opening and closing. Early mornings they are like furled umbrellas, pale outer petals nearly hiding the darker inner petals. Then with a bit of light and warmer temperatures they open and lift amber pistils and stamens to the sun. By evening they are folded up again for the night, re-opening in the morning. And after the rain all day today, they are drenched and pathetic, about to slip away and leave the stage free for the next spring performers.
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White Medley

3/1/2016

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In northern Indiana, we're at one of the year's hinges (how appropriate that yesterday was Leap Day!). One day the glimpses of white are the snowdrops coming up through brown leaves and green pachysandra, and the calligraphy of bare white sycamore branches lit by the sun.
A day or two later, those snowdrops are covered with snow and the only "flowers" to be seen are icy caps on dried seedheads. One sunlit clump of snow reminds me of cupped hands -- holding the thought of spring, perhaps? A day later, the snow is gone, and the snowdrops have grown several inches. And I spot early crocus, white and yellow, in my south-facing window well. Despite today's winter weather advisory, spring is on its way.
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Hard to believe, but those snowdrops are just under this patch of snow!
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    My approach to contemplative photography --
    "Pay attention.
    Be astonished.
    Tell about it."

    Mary Oliver in "Sometimes"

    Tesserae: small cube-shaped tiles of ceramic, glass or precious stone used to make a mosaic, or in this case, brief essays on some element of lectio divina with Luke 10:38-42.

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