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Dec 5 Rain “nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands” (e. e. cummings) This closing line has sat with me like no poem nor play nor prose has ever crept into my thoughts. While cummings was writing of romantic love, isn’t that what we all want from a spiritual experience? A love, a peace, a wholeness that soaks even more deeply into our skin and souls than the rain that pours down relentlessly? The rain that could be so powerful to make seeds change to trees and then the floods that uproot and destroy and pound new seed and new life would also be so gentle. What would that love look and feel like? How would we receive it? What would it take to give that love? #adventword #adventword2022 #adventcalendar #adventskalender #advent #rain #episcopal #episcopalian #eecummings #northcarolina @greatsmokynps #latergram @blueridgenps #clingmansdome #latergram #2016 #macro https://www.instagram.com/p/ClyPZ4ruW8l/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dec 4 Delight Wishing a day of delight to this fantastic dad on his birthday. #adventword #adventword2022 #adventcalendar #advent #birthday #delight #episcopal #episcopalian #2011 https://www.instagram.com/p/ClvxmOzONjh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dec 3 Unity Unite. Come together. Turn to the same goal or idea. Retain yourself. Having worked supporting leadership education for the last few years, of course I go to how people interact. It is often too easy to slip from unity into uniformity. Unity must be cultivated and nurtured through healthy dissent and loyal opposition. (In the AdventWord song catalog, today I have Queen Latifah in my head) #adventword #adventword2022 #adventcalendar #advent #unity #mydbg #episcopal #episcopalian #fauxtography #nikon https://www.instagram.com/p/Cls20iIu95H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Dec 2 Ready Will we ever be ready to shed the shells that hold us back and bloom into the beauty we are? Of course we will never be ready. But we do it anyway. #adventword #adventword2022 #advent #adventcalendar #episcopal #episcopalian #ready #mydbg @denverbotanic #waterlily #macrophotography #dslr #nikon #d3200 https://www.instagram.com/p/Clqgts5uTl-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

“In a time of destruction, create something.” ~Maxine Hong Kingston The first time I made a set of Anglican Prayer Beads was at a workshop with the 20s/30s group at Saint John’s Cathedral. When the Cathedral shut down its bookstore, I had a wild hare of an idea to make lots more of them to sell at coffee hour as the fundraiser for the Cathedral’s AIDS Walk team. And from there, I was hooked. Turning little pieces of wire and playing with colors is my place of peace. #adventword #adventword2022 #advent #adventcalendar #episcopal #episcopalian #make #makesomething #prayerbeads @sjcdenver @firemountaingems https://www.instagram.com/p/ClnwFA3uEgm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=