Sunday Spiritual: Praying with the Elements

My friend and fellow writing group member, Christine Paintner of Abbey of the Arts has a wonderful new journal: Praying with the Elements, Reflections in Word and Image. This full-color glossy wonder is small enough to tuck into your journal and beautiful enough to feed your soul through all four seasons. Celtic spirituality emerges in the form of photographs, poems, essays, and journal questions. Some of my favorite things in the journal are Christine’s original Celtic knot works and colored illustrations. (I’m particularly fond of the turtle on page 22.)

Praying with the Elements connects you to the soulfulness of the created order: wind, water, fire, and earth. Today, I’m soaking in the reflection questions for ‘water,’ my favorite of which is:

“What are the places in your life of ebbing and rising? “

With all the thoughts of moving overseas and the requisite ending and beginnings that go with that, I find this question to be very timely.

You can take Praying with the Elements along with you on your journey. Christine has one waiting just for you here.

I’m off now to sail the seven seas — well, at least to cruise the Copenhagen canal on a guided tour boat. I leave you with this lovely water-themed blessing from the journal:

“Blessings of water be upon you.
May you be carried by the flow of the great river of life.
May you discover a hidden spring within you, gushing forth,
May you be carried to the shores of the sacred and renewed.”

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