Labyrinth Wellness, LLC: winter solstice whimsy

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Just after New Year's 2011, we visited the beach as a family, and we were amazed to see this very large, extremely heavy piece of driftwood that someone had fixed upright like a standing stone - an Ebenezer of sorts. The visible portion pictured stood over 3 feet high and the section that was buried beneath the sand was at least again as long (our son patiently and carefully dug around it to assess this, but he was never able to reach the bottom). Clearly, the driftwood was very solidly and deliberately fixed in place by someone. The Hebrew translation for "Eben-Ezer" means "God has led us thus far" or "Thus far God has helped us" and comes from a story in 1 Samuel 7:12. This felt to me like a very special sign for 2011 and a beautiful OceanPrayer. And so, it became my blog's newest photo. I hope you like it, too. The very next morning, I revisted the exact same spot, curious to see and photograph the "stone" again in the morning sunlight, yet the Ebenezer was completely gone without a trace...

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

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

winter solstice whimsy

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