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Resurrection Riff

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:00:38-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: Easter, joy, music, New Creation|

Resurrection –  say it softly, as one must after the softening notes go wherever notes go when they no longer sound. The day has gone by for [...]

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Rising

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:31-04:00Categories: Uncategorized, Words|Tags: beauty, grace, gratitude, sadness|

  Image  Grand Tetons by Alexandra Mills   Today doesn’t look like this for me.  There is no great glory caught between the cupped [...]

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Beginning

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:32-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: compassion, creativity, governance, Leadership, spiritual practice, vulnerability, Wholeness|

 Not long ago I shared with a gathering of others a way of governance birthed out of a commitment to vulnerable practice.  I have been consciously [...]

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A Contemplative Eastertide

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:56-04:00Categories: Prayers, Words|Tags: Contemplative, Easter, healing, joy, prayer|

  O Spirit O Silence O Risen One O Gate O Garden O Press of the Grass O Call O Healer O Love Gone Before Us [...]

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In the deepening darkness

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:57-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: death, Good Friday, Hope, love|

This morning we got up went about our morning routines came out into the drizzle and sat in a gentle, ordinary space ~ We bear witness [...]

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A Patch of Sun

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:01:58-04:00Categories: Sabbath Seeds, Words|Tags: Leadership, Practice, vulnerability, Wholeness|

All week I've been writing, trying to capture the integration of my thoughts and my practice of the intersection of vulnerability and leadership. And now I [...]

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Blessings in the world

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:13-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: blessing, relinquishing, Ritual, vulnerability|

Always in life we are relinquishing something or someone, gracefully or with great struggle.  We relinquish childhood for adolescence, adolescence for adulthood and its various stages [...]

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Letting the Camel Go

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:14-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: freedom, holy ordinary, wonder|

The last two days I've listened to Gary Paterson the Moderator of the United Church of Canada preach.  And there were lots of poems within the [...]

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Jazz Vespers

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:15-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: liturgy, music, preaching|

We had Jazz Vespers last night.  As I prepared by listening to jazz and reading in Jamie Howison’s God’s Mind in that Music:  Theological Explorations through [...]

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Prayer Written Hiddenly

Catherine Smith2020-01-28T12:02:15-04:00Categories: Words|Tags: community, Dmin, prayer|

Words shared with DMin Online Collegium I have been captivated for several years by the idea of prayer written hiddenly. I have read about this in [...]

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