by Janice MacLean | Feb 8, 2023 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections
Ash Wednesday brings us back to Earth. What are these ashes? Perhaps they are last Easter’s palm hosanna’s waved in joy, now presented to the fire. Once full of life, now grey-shadowed dust transformed, and lying in a waiting bowl. Ash Wednesday brings us back to...
by Janice MacLean | Feb 16, 2022 | Ordinary, Reflections, Uncategorized
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...
by Janice MacLean | Apr 1, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 118 Set Your Face Toward the Riot And on this path the gates are opening wide — Psalm 118 Read Psalm 118: 1,2 -19-29 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 25, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 130 Tending the Grief “My whole being waits for you, my God, listening for your Presence.” — Psalm 130:4 Read Psalm 130 What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked in you as you pray this Psalm? When life is hard and you...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 18, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 23 Hospitality “Anoint my head, and fill my cup to overflowing.” – Psalm 23 Read Psalm 23 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked in you as...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 13, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 95 Holding in Care “God holds in care the earth we walk upon, from its deep caverns, to mountain summits which meet the sky.” -Psalm 95 Read Psalm 95 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to...
by Janice MacLean | Mar 3, 2020 | Reflections, Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 121 Present to Life as it is. “I walk into your wakefulness… And in the shadows … you preserve me from its evils.” – Psalm 121 Read Psalm 121 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What...
by Janice MacLean | Feb 27, 2020 | Visual Intercessions
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 32 Speaking the Truth of the Heart. “How blessed are those who live before their God without the weight of guilt … I spoke …. Uncovering it all.” Ps. 32 Read Psalm 32 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call...
by Janice MacLean | Feb 24, 2016 | Ordinary, Reflections
There is something about blessing that calls forth wholeness and imagines (in the sense of making possible) the best we can be. I invited participants in the Lent Email Retreat to create an altar-table and place upon it a blessing bowl. I didn’t define its use....
by Janice MacLean | Jan 18, 2016 | Ordinary, Reflections
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 Pausing to becoming awake, aware, receptive and...
