by Janice MacLean | Sep 2, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
I love the sound of waterfalls. When I listen this poetry is in my heart. Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. – Psalm 42:7 (NIV) Deep calling to Deep has long resounded as charism or...
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 | Aug 3, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
At 18 years, I discovered the power of poetry. My summer job in a Nursing Home got interesting when my grandfather loaned me an old school reader. As I read poems, the room filled with the echo of old voices picking up the rhythm of long ago memorized lines. Some...
by Janice MacLean | Jul 29, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
We were walking early in the morning, Grace and I. She saw a Real Estate sign and the agent was Grace! She said she saw a church sign near her house: Grace United. “Grace is a great word,” I said. She looked interested. It’s hard to define grace to a...
by Janice MacLean | Jun 23, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
“But the blessed ones grow strong as living trees, their roots sink deep and hidden beside the flowing streams which come from you.” – Psalm 1:3a, Ancient Songs Sung Anew (Bauman) I loved biology in school. I fulfilled my science requirement...
by Janice MacLean | Jun 12, 2015 | Photos for Eye & Soul, Reflections
The Door of the Day (Click on the image below to make it larger.) This red door delights me. I wonder what adventures await you as you pass through the door of this day?
by Janice MacLean | May 5, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
I saw a fire hydrant pushed of its base in my walk. I think a dragon did it. Dragons don’t like water, right? It’s an insult to their dragon fire. I’m looking for dragons, along with others from Stroll for Your Soul. Brian Swimme says the universe is...
by Janice MacLean | Apr 17, 2015 | Lectionary & Scripture, Reflections
I’m noticing how often the disciples are ‘getting to know Jesus in an new way’ and it is often in liminal space. At dawn, the woman come to the tomb. (Perhaps Mary Magdalene never left but that’s another story.) They depart with a new song in...
by Janice MacLean | Apr 7, 2015 | Ordinary, Reflections
It’s Tuesday. After Easter. I am grateful to Shirley Kirkpatrick who commented on my Easter post with these words: “Happy Easter again today.” Indeed. I also recall Leonardo Boff says something like, resurrection is a process that goes on until it...
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...
