Labyrinth Wellness, LLC: August 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Third Thursdays on the Labyrinth resumes September 16th!

Special thanks to Parish Secretary and Tidings Editor, Merike Seely of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, for such a lovely write up on page two of the September 2010 issue of Tidings.

I am really looking forward to our new time of 11am to 1pm so that walkers can stop by on their lunch and walk the labyrinth. See you soon, everyone, and please bring a friend to the labyrinth. More info on my website!

stay tuned for the upcoming issue of THE SPIRIT OF VERIDITAS, VOICES FROM THE LABYRINTH

Our Journal Team is hard at work on the Summer 2010 "Poetry on the Path" edition. Please keep us in your prayers and look for it on-line coming in late September!

Enjoy all archived issues of The Spirit of Veriditas, Voices From the Labyrinth anytime at www.veriditas.org.

Peace for your Path,
Robin

p.s.
I am already collecting ideas and submissions for our Fall 2010 issue "Music on the Path". Email me your suggestions today! Thanks
robin@labyrinthwellness.com

F-STOP BLUES

This is my favorite crying song....

an article about a lovely new labyrinth in San Jose

San Jose church building labyrinth to promote peaceful contemplation

By Eric Messinger

emessinger@mercurynews.com

Special thanks to Julianne Rice for sharing the above story with Tina Margason who shared it with ME! :)

Check out these beautiful photos of the building process, too, taken by Julianne:

Sunday, August 29, 2010

The VoiceAmerica™ Talk Radio Network - The Wisdom of the Labyrinth

All Episodes FREE On-Demand and on iTunes, too! Choose from Robin's episodes from this season as well as last season's episodes featuring Dr. Lauren Artress of Veriditas. Peace for your Path and thanks for listening to THE WISDOM OF THE LABYRINTH.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Jack Johnson brings soulful songs and green ways to Cruzan (by Jonathan Tully)

One more fantastic article about this artist's good faith mission. Please support his work!

(Photo accompanied cited article on www.pbpulse.com)

Jack Johnson loose and fun at tour’s final show at Cruzan

Here's another great piece about last night's concert written by Johnathan Tully of the Palm Beach Post (All photos by Taylor Jones):

Don't miss this great slideshow of 28 pictures from last night from the Palm Beach Post Website! Photos

A great article in the Miami Herald about Jack Johnson's environmental work

Please enjoy this great article written by Micaela Hood (photo by Ian Gavan/Stringer)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Jack Johnson!!!

One of my favorite artists on the Path....such a champion for the
environment! Thrilled to see him in concert right NOW :)

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Welcome to Whidbey....

Monday, August 23, 2010

treehugger me!

This ancient cedar is over 500 years old. I am in Heaven standing here in front of it at South Whidbey Island State Park.

a vision of ancient majesty

This ancient cedar did not fare as well just a few feet away. Her trunk was enormous and spectacularly beautiful all covered in moss.....

Be Thou My Vision

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art.
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
Thou my soul’s Shelter, Thou my high Tower:
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of Heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of Heaven, my victory won,
May I reach Heaven’s joys, O bright Heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

Lyrics located on http://nethymnal.org/htm/b/t/btmvison.htm

Words: Attributed to Dallan Forgaill, 8th Century (Rob tu mo bhoile, a Com di cri de); translated from ancient Irish to English by Mary E. Byrne, in “Eriú,” Journal of the School of Irish
Learning, 1905, and versed by Eleanor H. Hull, 1912, alt.

Yesterday in church, the choir sang "Be Thou My Vision" which is one of my favorite hymns. As I reflected on our trip to the Pacific Northwest and on all the amazing natural beauty I was blessed to behold with my husband and son, this song seemed to speak perfectly the words of thanksgiving in my heart.....

Peace to you,
Robin

Friday, August 20, 2010

Rainier Reflections...

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Legacy of Thomas Berry: Ecology and World Religion

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...