Labyrinth Wellness, LLC: September 2009

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

theMotherhood

It was such an honor to be interviewed this morning on theMotherhood. I have been enjoying editing my blog there, "Moms on the Labyrinth" since April. So, I was completely thrilled to be asked to talk with Deborah this morning in the "Up Close and Personal: A One-on-One Interview" circle. It was a great experience and I wish to personally thank this amazing community of women for their interest and support.

Log onto theMotherhood today and join the conversation!

Peace for your Path,
Robin

Monday, September 28, 2009

The National Parks: America's Best Idea

don't miss this new PBS series

The National Parks: America's Best Idea began last night on PBS. I hope you can watch this latest series by Ken Burns. Visit their site for more info and to check your local listing....http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/

my favorite sand labyrinth....

....is most certainly Nature's very own!

Monday, September 21, 2009

walk with a PURPOSE

Some photos from our Saturday event...Another beautiful morning on the labyrinth!

photos from Third Thursdays on the Labyrinth

A very special thank you to Merike Seely for taking, and sharing, these pictures from our morning on the labyrinth! I feel very honored to be pictured with Mac....

Thursday, September 17, 2009

one more of the birthday girl

Oh, how fast they grow!

one of my special labyrinth friends

Meet Mac. He is Father Bob's golden-hearted retriever and Good
Shepherd's beloved ambassador of Love. It was my second opportunity to
walk the labyrinth with Mac today. I am always blessed by his calming
presence. Mac frequents the halls and the hearts of Good Shepherd's
parish on almost a daily basis.....

Today, Mac inspired me to suggest to the church staff that we add a
labyrinth walk to Good Shepherd's annual "Blessing of the Animals"
event in honor of St. Francis. Mark your calendars for Sunday, October
4th at 4 pm.

Lily will be there!

a special morning on the labyrinth.....

happy birthday, lily!

third thursdays on the labyrinth - TODAY

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

our almost birthday girl....

Lily (pictured at about 11weeks) turns one this Thursday. Check back
soon to find out how she'll celebrate.....

sunshine found....

A labyrinth walker left this drawing in the sand one morning last Spring. I had placed my favorite bowl filled with sand and a borrowed stick in the center of the labyrinth on that special Ash Wednesday. I just found this picture on my cell phone this morning. Grace.....

Monday, September 14, 2009

circles

"Everything I see, hear, touch, feel, taste, speak, think, imagine, is completing a perfect circle God has drawn." Meister Eckhart

meet me in theMotherhood !

Join my circle "Moms on the Labyrinth" today!

third thursdays on the labyrinth

I am delighted to once again host an Open Labyrinth Walk this coming Thursday, September 17th in Tequesta, Florida at The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd. Drop by anytime between 10am and 12pm to walk the labyrinth with me in the beautiful outdoor garden:

http://www.goodsheponline.com/labyrinth.html

For more information on this and other upcoming labyrinth programming and events, please visit my website, www.labyrinthwellness.com

See you on the Path!

Friday, September 11, 2009

today....

A couple of poems for this day both written by St. Francis of Assisi (as found in the book, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky):

Anyone Who Suffered

I
would not
leave this earth until God
promised
me

that my hands could always touch the face of
anyone who
suffered.

In His Sanity

If all the tenderness in this world could reflect
from my eyes, would you accept
that love?

If all
the forgiveness
the heavens have known could be offered
from one
face,

would you accept that
divine pardon?

In His sublime sanity -
every moment God offers
that to
us:

anything that might
comfort.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

a quote for today

I love this. It feels just right for today. May each of us find what we need for our next step forward in faith.....

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take that step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen; there will be something solid for us to stand on or we will learn to fly."

- Patrick Overton

Friday, September 4, 2009

once in a blue moon - coming soon!

Mark your calendars now! This year a Blue Moon (so named as it is the second full moon to appear in a month) will be visible on December 31, 2009. Happy New Year! Find a labyrinth to walk on this special night....(The next Blue Moon will not occur until August 31, 2012).

Don't miss it.

a quote about loving....

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

poetry for your path

"And Mary said, 'My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior'." - Luke 1:46-47

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." - Rachel Carson

"I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music." - Hafiz

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace." - Thomas Merton

"The search for grace, costly grace, involves the acceptance of pain and the creative grief which accompanies growth into maturity. Don't be afraid the pain will destroy the wholeness. It leads, instead, to the kind of wholeness that rejoices in Resurrection." - Madeleine L'Engle

Isaiah 43:1-4

"It is true that sin is the cause of all this pain, but all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well." - Julian of Norwich

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi

"The labyrinth does not engage our thinking minds. It invites our intuitive, pattern-seeking, symbolic mind to come forth." - Dr. Lauren Artress

"You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred, and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you." - Sue Monk Kidd

"Divinity is like a wheel, a circle, a whole." - Hildegard von Bingen

"Draw a sacred circle around your recovery. Give yourself the gift of faith. Trust you are on the right path. You are." - Julia Cameron

"The joy of Being is the joy of being conscious." - Eckhart Tolle

"There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us." - Marianne Williamson

"The enemy of whole vision is reasoning power's divorce from the imagination." - William Blake

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take that step into the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen: there will be something solid for us to stand on, or we will learn to fly." - Patrick Overton

"There are beautiful wild forces within us. Let them turn the mills inside and fill sacks that feed even heaven." - St. Francis of Assisi

Psalm 103

"One of the most wonderful truths you will discover on the path to authenticity is that your aspirations are your possibilities." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Traveler, there is no path. Paths are made by walking." - Pablo Neruda

"I write because I am confused and seek to understand". - Robin Bradley Hansel

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves it is eternal. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it." - Anais Nin

"Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life." - Proverbs 12:12

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -

Anais Nin

"Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people." - Richard J. Foster

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott

"You are the veil that hides the paradise you seek." - Saint Brendan

Peace for your Path...