A FAINT SHADOW

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Saturday, February 20, 2010

I received my ashes...

I received my ashes on Ash Wednesday.

The ashes marked me as one of Christ's own.

I carry that mark on my forehead,

but I let it lodge deep in my soul.

As these ashes are infused with the joy and the sorrow

that abide within the soul of my life,

I let the holiness of those ashes

smolder with all that resides within,

giving birth to something unadulterated,

something so full of Sacred grace,

that it can be offered as a fragrant offering

to the Lord of Heaven.

I am not marked for this Wednesday only.

I am not only marked for this Lenten season,

but it seems to be a marking

that I will carry

forever.

✙

also...

Lili Ruth got her ashes--

wish I had a picture.

This is her sorting rocks at Zamma's:

Monday, February 15, 2010

☆ Chloe is 13 ☆

"Where did you come from, baby dear?

Out of the everywhere into the here..."

February 16, 1997--Chloe's birthday

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Quote by Khalil Gibran

✙Julia, Summer of 1953✙

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet,

and the winds long to play with your hair."

~Khalil Gibran

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Monday, February 8, 2010

Winter Wonderland

(I took this picture a few minutes later--after the sun was up. I didn't make any adjustments on either photo.)

Friday, February 5, 2010

The statue is by Josefina de Vasconcellos who made it at the age of 90. It was donated to Coventry Cathedral (England) by Richard Branson on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II (1995).

"Essential to the work of reconciliation is a nonjudgmental presence. We are not sent to the world to judge, to condemn, to evaluate, to classify, or to label. When we walk around as if we have to make up our mind about people and tell them what is wrong with them and how they should change, we will only create more division."

Henri Nouwen

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Wonder what was wrong with Mason?

Seems like a long time ago since he was 2 years old--what a sweet little boy he was! I love him so much!

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Thursdays at Zamma's

(Pretty soon Miles is going to be bigger than Lili!)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

When I started my experiment, I thought I would just do one page. Well, it wouldn't let me do just page 7, so I quickly filled in the other pictures. I really wanted the one page where all 3 of the babies were about 4 months old--I really like that page!

Blowing Bubbles

Friday, January 15, 2010

St. Teresa of Avila--The Interior Castle

"I thought of the soul as resembling a castle,

formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal,

and containing many rooms, just as in heaven there are many mansions.

If we reflect, sisters, we shall see that the soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight.

34Prov. viii. 31: ‘Deliciæ meæ esse cum filiis hominum.’

What, do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest?

Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness."

St. Teresa of Avila (1550-1582), The Interior Castle or The Mansions