About This Blog
In a nutshell, Plain and Simple of Echo From the Green Hills (now on haitus) has summed up this blog better than I ever could. From a comment she made over at The Sacred Art of Living:
" ...many everyday acts become sacred when we keep in mind the beauty and provision of the Lord’s creation."
And Christine, The author of that same blog, summed it up well there too:
"(This is about) inviting people to use this time (the new moon) to reflect back on the last month and write about the concrete ways the sacred has been revealed in our lives. (We are) calling them “love letters from God” which is seeing the holiness of the ordinary."
That's pretty much what this is... a purposely collective journal where around the new moon ( I needed the simplicity of a monthly main post focus) all who choose to can reflect back on the past month and share concretely how the sacred has been revealed in our actual day to day lives (God's "love letters"). The simple things, the touchable things, the things that are like God's hands, holding us. Co-creating a journal that actually shows witness, in a touchable tangible way, that HE WAS HERE.
But summarizing things like that is definitely not my strength. I find i must also tell the bigger story for some reason. So, if curious, for "the story" behind this, please see here...
In a nutshell, the "small things" of gratitude, honesty, awareness of God's hand in the smallest or deepest moments through our life's 'co-in-see-dances', and living more simply and directly in whatever small ways that might be (i think this helps us open up more to feeling His hand)...these feel to me right now to be the building blocks to opening to more deeply to see God's love letters, His hand, actually moving in our everyday lives.
And so that is what this blog is about, and it is a blog I truly hope others might join in by sharing their own experiences/posts.
The blog is set up around each new moon. Firstly, this is to help reclaim that tradition (for more on that please see here) and partly simply because I find I need a focus like that. As much as I love the thought of a daily gratitude journal or a detailed gratitude list and the like, I have found out the hard way that I can get overwhelmed by large things like that and so find them not happening or not finishing. And so posting at the new moon about the past moon-th (thanks Sarah for that word) just feels more managable to me, plus it might perhaps encourage thoughts around the past moon-th to kind of gather and cystalize and simplify.
For more details on the how and the when of doing these posts, please see the next link...
(Image is "Candlelight" from Morgan Weistling's One-Man Show)
