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Lent Calendar – 40 Gestures

by Janice MacLean | Feb 16, 2022 | Ordinary, Reflections, Uncategorized | 0 comments

40 Gestures Supporting Mindfulness & Presence Lent Getting ready for the Mystery of Easter. Lent A slow showing of God in the ordinary. Lent 40 days of noticing life shining in the mystery of everyday. Lent Calling us to gratitude, mindfulness, intention. Lent...

A Gentle Stirring of Life & Hope

by Janice MacLean | Dec 5, 2019 | Ordinary, Reflections | 0 comments

A Gentle Stirring of Life and Hope I’m haunted by this image. Before you read more about it, take the time to explore the entire image with your eyes: Notice the shapes, the different figures and symbols…. See if there is any part of the image that asks for your...

Stroll Meditations

by Janice MacLean | May 28, 2019 | Ordinary, Reflections | 0 comments

By Corina Bolo May 11, 2019 This morning I took my first Stroll of this season and it was along some used-to-be familiar streets. I am staying for a bit with my Mom in my childhood home and this morning’s walk took me past the WayMarks of street signs that I...

Deciding to Stroll in the Rain

by Janice MacLean | May 20, 2019 | Ordinary, Reflections | 6 comments

by Pam Harrison Today is going to mark a change of attitude in my way of walking. The weather has kept me from walking three days on this journey, I miss walking so much. I reflected on your words and enjoy the day, but something is missing. So I am going to “walk in...

A Sabbath Exercise in Four Directions

by Janice MacLean | Jun 13, 2018 | Ordinary, Reflections | 0 comments

A Guest Post by by Linda Yates North Face the North – hold your hands up in the air. In the north are bedrock and cold. The land of snow and ice comes down to visit us in our winter. Winter is a time of coziness, of creatures sleeping under snow, trusting in the...

Recipes from the Family Table

by Janice MacLean | Mar 12, 2018 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources | 1 comment

Recipes from the Family Table By Breanna Sharpe “Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.” – Bob Ehrlich I sometimes hear people complain that their parents might be embarrassing, or that their grandparents call too...

Unbearable Saints

by Janice MacLean | Oct 30, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections | 8 comments

These are the thin days of Hallow’s Eve, All Saints and Souls when we offer thanks for those who linger with us and the souls who come to find us. Here among us are the saints-in-making the challenging one, close by or far away the incredibly rude one the smoker...

The Milk House

by Janice MacLean | Sep 22, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections, Spiritual Memoir Resources | 2 comments

The Milk House A Reflection by Cathy MacLean The little house on on our property was once a “milk house.” A milk house, as the word implies, was a small building used to keep anything that had to do with “milk” such as skim milk, pails,...

Praying the News – Sample of Leader Page

by Janice MacLean | Sep 11, 2017 | Ordinary, Reflections | 1 comment

A few years ago I was leading a retreat and my eye caught the cover of the bible of a woman sitting next to me. It was a soft covered Good News Bible. A black smudge was ground into the cover. At a quiet time I asked her about it. She looked at It almost like she...

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Lent Calendar – 40 Gestures

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Stroll Meditations

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Unbearable Saints

The Milk House

Praying the News – Sample of Leader Page

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