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The Moment Just Before

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:08-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: Advent, Christmas, healing, Meditation, the moment, the Word|

  This is the time of the liturgical colour blue, the colour of the night sky. But it is almost the colour of pure celebration. You [...]

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The Bowl of the Day

Catherine Smith2020-07-29T12:00:44-03:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: Possibility, Presence, Thanks|

Before yesterday’s  noon meal I gave thanks for the day; not only a smooth day or an easy day; a very mixed day.  Still a day that [...]

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The Memory of Ashes

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:35-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: Ash Wednesday, doubt, free, held, holy, practices|

I woke early this morning wondering about doubt; turning doubt itself this way and that way in my heart. And I felt again the importance of [...]

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Hallows Eve

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:59-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: All Saints, blessing, community, Hope, Inclusion, time|

Coming to this all hallows evening we hear the call to pay attention to the permeable fabric of time. It is a potent time in which [...]

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The Gift of a Question

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:59-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: freedom, question, risk, vulnerability, Wholeness, wisdom|

A wise woman gave me a question. “What would it look like in this moment to take one small step in the direction of Love?” It [...]

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The Welcome Seat

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:14-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: Welcome; World; Grounding; Colour;|

  It is the first day of May but it is not yet spring.  Somehow a picture of a flower or a blue sky or a [...]

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Amazed

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:14-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: prayer, surprise, wonder|

Many things continue to amaze me.  How the tiniest thing can lift your heart; one bird’s song just before the day fades, or the sun like [...]

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The Texture of Joy

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:14-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: fatigue, joy, Wholeness|

The last few weeks I’ve been thinking about texture; especially the texture of joy.  Perhaps I could have chosen a more vivid image, but I am [...]

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A Morning to Share

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:15-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: morning|

Everything is waiting for you . . .   Poet David Whyte’s words seemed to just emerge from behind this sky as I watched it, unrolled [...]

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Holding the Unwrapped Gift with Reverence

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:36-04:00Categories: Midweek Moments|Tags: Creation, gift|

I’ve been thinking this week about gifts and thresholds; the moment you open one or the moment you cross another.  This orchid is the way the [...]

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