Erie Chapman
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Days 347-349 – Beauty as Our Birthright
Beauty is our birthright. When our eyes are “graced with wonder” we can enjoy this greatest of gifts. Continue reading
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Days 343-344 – Love, Laugh, Let Go
The greatest refuge in life is beauty. Continue reading
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Days 340-342 – Circling
Perhaps, we are simply God’s Love. We travel the earth for awhile, searching and swirling. Sometimes we sing to the suffering. Sometimes we suffer ourselves – all the while “circling around God, the ancient tower.” Continue reading
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Days 336-337 – Thickening the Soul?
Love cannot redeem us unless we live it, unless we love those who suffer in hospitals and live the punishment of imprisonment or who live in abusive environments. Continue reading
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Days 334-336 – Radical Love
In her insightful book, Touched With Fire, Dr. Kay Redfeld Jamison, professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins Medical School has offered one of the most important and provocative questions I have ever encountered: Do we diminish artists [and saints] if… Continue reading
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Days 331-332 – A Different Thanksgiving
Whenever we lose someone we love, the texture of each holiday changes, doesn’t it? We begin to recognize things we loved in the departed that we may not have appreciated during their lives. Continue reading
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Days 328-330 – Delight
Love holds us as close as we will allow ourselves to be held. Continue reading
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Days 325-326 – Consecration
Every encounter holds the potential to become sacred because every moment is pregnant with the holy. It is only Love which can consecrate any occurence or any place. Continue reading
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Days 322-324 – The Wisdom in Loneliness
"If we're set on creating change, on doing things differently, we must be prepared for loneliness." – Margaret Wheatley. Photography is the art I have practiced the longest. Recently, I've noticed that more and more of the images… Continue reading
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Days 317-318 – “Trails of Words & Music”
The path of our lives is, Kort writes, “woven through waves like a map to find our way home.” Do you know where “home” is for you? When you arrive there, will you be able to lean into the center… Continue reading
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