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It’s a fantastic morning right here in Sydney Australia and we’re anticipating a delightfully heat day. It’s a pleasure to be right here with my household, have the ability to meet up with pals, and soak within the pleasure of my favorite metropolis on this planet with the jacarandas flowering, the birds raucously singing and the aromatic jasmine scent filling the air. There’s something particular in regards to the place we develop up and once we return to it we really really feel we’ve got come residence.  Yesterday I received along with Mercy Ships’ pals I’ve not seen for greater than 30 years, and it was as if we had by no means been aside. We sat and reminisced for 3 1/2 hours, sharing tales, catching up on the fun and the heartaches of our lives previous and current. It was a really particular time. Friendships turn into extra valuable the older we get, and and one of many issues I respect most about social media is its capacity to keep up networks of relationships we’d in any other case lose. It has been arduous to not have Tom with me having fun with these particular instances however he’s doing nicely and is being nicely taken care of by his personal community of pals.

Meditation Monday – Getting Prepared For All Saints Day mirrored a few of this similar specialness of friendships and relationships as I talked about methods to recollect those that have gone earlier than whose lives anchor us within the story of God and in addition the planet Earth wherein we stay. Remembering the lives of ancestors, mentors, guiding lights of the religion is a crucial and particular celebration of life.

Within the U.S. particularly, persons are preparing for Halloween. I didn’t develop up with this celebration, although the pumpkins and scary decorations round Sydney point out it’s catching on right here too. It does appear a bit of weird to see orange pumpkins in all places at the start of spring although. In my Religious Follow – Portray Gratitude Pumpkins I shared one Halloween apply that helps give the season a extra significant slant. Portray gratitude pumpkins is for me, a beautiful technique to focus as we put together for American Thanksgiving.

Lilly Lewin’s Freerange Friday – The Good Highway is About Serving Others reminds us that it’s at all times necessary for us to maintain looking forward to God surprises and noticing the great thing about every day. She incorporates a fantastic quote from Richard Rohr that begins “Search pleasure in God and peace inside; search to relaxation within the good, the true, and the gorgeous. It’s the one resting place that additionally permits us to listen to and bear the darkness. “

Considered one of my delights throughout this journey to Sydney is having the ability to share my new ebook Celtic Creation: Following An Unfamiliar Path with family and friends, lots of whom plan to make use of it within the upcoming season. I respect these of you who’ve already bought copies. Amazon appears to be having bother maintaining with the move so ensure you order your copy nicely upfront of November fifteenth and the start of Celtic Creation, as it could take a bit of longer than you anticipate to reach. I plan to submit some extra reflections and actions through the weeks of Creation in order that we are able to all enter in, in a really particular technique to the season. I hope you’ll be a part of me on this prolonged Creation celebration in order that we are able to learn alongside collectively in our journey in direction of Christmas and the delivery of Christ.

At present we posted Liturgical Rebels Episode 19, an interview with Celtic artist and calligrapher Mary Fleeson. Mary lives on Holy Island and has a wealthy historical past in textile design and research of historic manuscript strategies. Her lovely paintings and books might be discovered on the Lindisfarne Scriptorium.  This was an interesting interview that taught me a lot in regards to the strategies utilized by the creators of the E book of Kells and different lovely historic manuscripts. It gave me a deeper respect for the monks who toiled on these superb paperwork, utilizing creativity not solely within the paintings but additionally within the strategies that produced them.

Many blessings on you right this moment

Christine Sine

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