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Tessera 4: the pictures we carry

4/29/2018

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Another tile in the Martha/Mary mosaic....read more here.
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Early wildflowers

4/28/2018

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 Another visit to Shoup-Parsons Woods and more sights of spring, with spring beauty, mayapples looking like furled beach umbrellas,  bloodroot and the first sunning turtle I've seen this year (with a friend). Plus a few mysteries, at least for me.
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Tessera 3: Lectio Matters

4/25/2018

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Click here: Tessera 3: Lectio Matters for the essay.
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Let the winter come and go

4/19/2018

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From the song "Julian of Norwich"
Love, like the yellow daffodil, is coming through the snow;
Love, like the yellow daffodil, brings joy to all I know.

Ring out, bells of Norwich
And let the winter come and go.
All shall be well again I know.
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April Day Away at Pathways, with the winter's last snow (we hope), daffodils about to bloom and in full bloom, a tenacious feather with fresh snowflakes, and a cheery cherry-colored pompom.
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And back to spring. . .

4/18/2018

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Early spring, with the mix of old and new at Parsons-Shoup woods -- bare branches with a red-wing blackbird trilling his spring song; a tiny trillium bud growing out of the mud and debris left by flooding; new leaves looking like exotic birds; a buckeye putting down roots; patterns of seed heads breaking open and a dry leaf caught on a stem with tiny new leaves budding out.
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Before the snow (December)

4/17/2018

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Another draft that got overlooked, with more sights from the woods, from the week before Christmas, before the snow fell. 
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Stars and Trumpets

4/17/2018

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Just discovered an old draft of a post that never got published. This is from back in December, after a warmish day when I spent an hour enjoying the dried seed heads of a wildflower planting. I especially like the tiny seed to be found in the large seed head of the last photo.
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Tessera 2: The Needful Thing

4/16/2018

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Click here : Tessera 2: The Needful Thing for this essay.
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Hoarfrost and Tenacity

4/13/2018

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I found the feather above in the labyrinth at Pathways Retreat, on a warm day back in December. When I was there in March, I discovered the same feather still tenaciously hanging on, though a bit bedraggled. I wonder how it looked a few days ago, when we woke to hoarfrost -- on daffodils, crocus, and holly. 
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Tessera 1: On lectio divina

4/7/2018

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Tesserae are the small cube-shaped tiles of ceramic, glass, or precious stone that are used to make a mosaic. Over the next while, I will be creating verbal tesserae, short essays exploring different bits of my ongoing lectio divina on Luke 10:38-42, Luke’s account of Jesus’ visit to the home of Martha and Mary. Eventually, perhaps, we’ll discover the mosaic picture these tesserae create.

First, a word about lectio divina, or divine reading. Lectio is a centuries-old practice for reading scripture prayerfully. We approach the text seeking to encounter the living Word, an encounter that shapes and transforms us. We read a short passage slowly, noticing a word, phrase, or image that stands out for us; we stay with that phrase, savoring it and letting it echo in our hearts and imagination; we respond with prayer interaction through words, thoughts, and feelings; we move beyond words to rest in God. (Check here for simple directions on this way of Praying with Scripture.)

I have done lectio in multiple ways over the years, sometimes reading a few lines of scripture in the morning, discovering a word or phrase that has echoed throughout the day. For several years, I regularly went to www.sacredspace.ie/daily-prayer, an online website whose gentle questions guide the reader through lectio with the day’s chosen passage. I’ve also done group variations, where a weekly fellowship group looks at a passage together. And the contemplative photography I have been sharing on this blog is itself a sort of lectio divina, with the text being God’s creation.
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With this story of Martha and Mary, I have been doing a sustained lectio divina, a way of going deep with a text that I encountered in Lectio Matters: before the burning bush, by Sister Mary Margaret Funk, a Benedictine nun from Indianapolis. More on this in upcoming Tesserae.

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    "Pay attention.
    Be astonished.
    Tell about it."

    Mary Oliver in "Sometimes"

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