by Janice MacLean | Aug 29, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
It’s a long time since I needed a flashlight to see. Really see. Not just shine light upon for greater clarity, but really see. We needed a flashlight at Mt. Carleton Provincial Park in New Brunswick. (You travel to Bathurst and turn left and drive in the woods...
by Janice MacLean | Jul 28, 2015 | Free Stuff, Ordinary, Photos for Eye & Soul, Reflections
Visio Divina – The Practice of Sacred Seeing The practice of Visio Divina (Latin for Divine Seeing) is a prayer practice inviting you to pay attention to the Holy speaking through images. It is based on the 6th century monastic practice of Lectio Divina where...
by Janice MacLean | Jul 13, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
I wrote about “The Old Man”, an ancient herb in a previous post. “The Old Man” – Part 1 I imagined my great-grandmother snipping pieces of this ferny herb growing around the foundations of the farm house. The second story my mother...
by Janice MacLean | Jul 10, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
My mother brought me a tiny cutting from her garden. It’s called “The Old Man.” Along with it came a story. Two stories, really. I’ll tell you first today. “The Old Man,” or Artemisia Abrotanum by its formal name, grew prolifically...
by Janice MacLean | Jun 2, 2015 | Photos for Eye & Soul, Reflections
Seeing the Ordinary (click on the image below to make it larger) What ordinary thing is waiting for your attention to bring it into focus?
by Janice MacLean | Apr 11, 2015 | Photos for Eye & Soul, Reflections
Stop. Look. Wonder …. (click on the image to make it larger.) What longing in you is eager to emerge? What is being revealed to the world through you?
by Janice MacLean | Mar 5, 2015 | Audio Blog, Reflections
As stories do, this one came back to me recently. It’s about trees that grow above the timber line where the land is harsh and rugged. Maybe you can picture these trees in their little clusters clinging tenaciously in the cracks of the cliff. They are exposed to...
by Janice MacLean | Nov 3, 2014 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections
“Who may come to your tabernacle? Your mountain strong.” Tabernacle is the portable dwelling place of God. I abide in God and God abides in me. Am I a tabernacle? A holding place, a waiting place, a sacred place. Space. Is tabernacle space? Where God...