The Vibrant Channeled Creator

“Let us not forget that God’s style is summarized in three words: closeness, compassion and tenderness. God is always near, he is always compassionate, he is always tender.” 
Pope Francis 

Let us set out to make other hearts burn with the word of God,

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2023
“And do we, I ask myself, believe in the power of the Eucharist? Does our going out to others, our service, find its beginning and its fulfillment there, in adoration?”

Pope Francis

We are not here to undo what has happened in the past. We are here to become conscious enough not to repeat it. That is our purpose. And from that, peace will come. It’s my hope

Caroline Myss 10/26/23

When I moved out of Minneapolis, I sorted through personal papers and it struck me that, in hundreds of pictures of me, I am not smiling in a single one. I look like a mortician with a migraine. Partly this is due to the cold. Winter is brutal and you keep your mouth shut so you won’t frost your lungs. Teachers told me that. Plus which, in Minnesota there never were many people around so what was the point of exercising personal charm? Plus which, there are strong Lutheran tendencies there, people consider humor frivolous, maybe sacrilegious. Jesus wept; He didn’t laugh.
I feel much freer in New York. I sometimes talk to myself when walking in the park, assuming I have something interesting to say. If you did this in Minnesota, there would be an intervention, you’d go into rehab for self-consciousness training. In New York, people enjoy this. It’s a looser culture. Crosswalks are ignored and “Do Not Walk” signs are considered only a suggestion.
Garrison Keillor Oct 25/23

Every year, a dozen persons or so are shoved into a moving train as it comes into a station. A few are killed. To install sliding glass shields to prevent this would cost billions and so New Yorkers make it a practice to stand back from the tracks, to

Garrison Keillor Oct 25/23

Climb out of your loop

Choose the opposite

Reach for the sky

Move on the diagonal

be sculpted by a master

sleep dreams

process them

Try it!

Jeanne recreated:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023
 
“The urgency of the Church’s missionary activity naturally calls for an ever closer missionary cooperation on the part of all her members and at every level. This is an essential goal of the synodal journey that the Church has undertaken, guided by the key words: communion, participation, mission.”

Pope Francis

essential communication

integrity and communication

my mission in plain sight

I commit to this mission

Jeanne Poland

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2023
 
“As with every authentic encounter with Christ, this experience of faith summoned her to mission. St. Therese could define her mission in these words: “I shall desire in heaven the same thing as I do now on earth: to love Jesus and to make him loved”.”

Pope Francis

I know. I’ve tried it. Swimming under water with goggles and oxygen on my back. Where you lose north,south east and west. Even the live fish fail to orient you.

It defies you to avoid resurfacing too quickly. To flirt with a predator, under water.

You write with your non dominant hand. Try to be fluid.

Use a watercolor style that is wet.

Keep an eye out for pearls.

Imagine the impossible.

Discover.

Pray.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2023
 
“Marian devotion has a privileged place. Mary is an advocate, but these days the word advocate is too functional. It is better to say that she is a “facilitator”. Mary is a facilitator when conflicts and problems arise, such as the lack of wine at the wedding. She helps us to “untie the knots” that can be created in us and between us. In other words, Mary also paves the way for friendship between peoples, inviting us to turn our gaze to the origin and goal of our existence, which is Jesus Christ, and encourages us to follow His example, walking the paths of peace, kindness, listening and patient and trusting dialogue.”

Pope Francis 

Unraveling and holiness might be simultaneous

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2023
 
“Dear brothers and sisters, forgiveness takes away nothing but adds – what does forgiveness add? – dignity: forgives takes away nothing from you but adds dignity to the person, it makes us lift our gaze from ourselves towards others, to see them as fragile as we are, yet always brothers and sisters in the Lord. Brothers and sisters, forgiveness is the wellspring of a zeal that becomes mercy and calls us to a humble and joyful holiness.” Pope Francis