Arise Blog
Dwelling places: Negative Space
Wondering, wandering, thinking on…
Recently on my walk around my local park, I sat down to rest and ponder. While looking out noticing the wide open field here is where I began thinking of negative space. The grassy field feels energetically vacant. Something should be happening here! Something will…
inspired to write.
cheers! —To courage and vulnerability, and the pathways to sharing your voice through writing.
Gratefulness to Henri Nouwen, Amy Carmichael, Haruki Murakami, and Michelle Otero.
These four authors have been an ongoing and welcoming of influences in my journey of exploration with writing. I praise them for their bravery to be vulnerable and give of themselves through the voice of writing, sharing their honest lives, vocations, and I will say souls for others to be moved…
POETRY. a good way to reflect on the resurrection.
Poetry. a full word.
Let us step in and explore the resting and presence poetry can unfold or unveil.
Listening and then just maybe writing.
I welcome you in.
A simple definition of poetry, or an invitation of exploration sounds like this:
Poetry—“literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experiences or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.”
The Coffee Shop: Favor
This month’s Coffee Shop writing comes out of my home, the morning hour of coffee since the weather has been cold, windy, snowy, hail and rain battering. And sunny! It has been sweet to do this writing from home gazing out the window inviting–a glimpse of wondering and growing with God.
Moving from grace gleanings now into favor. Grace means God’s unmerited favor so the question arises, what is exactly and experientially God’s favor?