Jeez Louise

Words for the day: in the news!   The Fig Tree is an ecumenical newspaper that has blessed Spokane for over 30 years! This month, they featured my Camino walk.   Look for it at: https://www.thefigtree.org/may23/050123chadezjvc.html Jeez Louise!

Word of the day:  statio “In the monastic tradition,  statio  is the practice of stopping one thing before beginning another. It is the acknowledgment that in the space of transition and threshold is a sacred dimension, a holy pause full of possibility. This place between is a place of stillness, where we let go of what came before and prepare ourselves to enter fully into what comes next.   Statio  calls us to a sense of reverence for slowness, for mindfulness, and for the fertile dark spaces between our goals where we can pause and center ourselves, and listen. We can open up a space within for God to work. We can become fully conscious of what we are about to do rather than mindlessly completing another task.” This is from Richard Rohr Daily Meditation:     Christine Valters Paintner,  The Soul’s Slow Ripening: 12 Celtic Practices for Seeking the Sacred  (Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2018), 9, 8   In Seattle for the 2nd time since pandemic, visiting dear friends and attendance at th

 Word for the day:  QUIET.  Interestingly, quiet can be an adjective, a noun, or a verb. adjective 1.  .   carried out  discreetly ,  secretly , or with  moderation . Opposite: public noun  2.  absence of noise or   bustle ; silence; calm. verb.  3.  make or become silent, still , calm             Looking out at Browne’s Mountsin from a friend’s deck.   The quiet, the birds are out in full symphony on our First over 70 degree day!        Jeez Louise!!!             

 Word of the day: detachment: being objective or aloof. But in the spiritual sense, it takes on a whole different meaning:   According to the Bhagavad Gita: acting with detachment means  doing the right thing for its own sake, because it needs to be done, without worrying about success or failure . And Richard Rohr in his daily reflections from “A Spring Within Us”:                                                                To any of us comfortable people, detachment sounds like losing, but it is actually about accessing a deeper, broader sense of the self, which is already whole, already content, already filled with abundant life. This is the part of us that has always loved God and has always said “yes” to God. It’s the part of us that is Love, and all we have to do is  let go and fall into it . It’s already there. Once we move our identity to that level of deep inner contentment and compassion, we realize that we’re drawing upon a Life that is larger than our own and from a deep

 Word of the day: EID.       Celebrated twice a year.      The first is at the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting in the Muslim world.   Eid al-Fitr - which means " festival of the breaking of the fast " - is celebrated at the end of Ramadan, a holy month when many adult Muslims fast.          There are two major eids in the Islamic calendar per year – Eid al-Fitr earlier in the year and Eid al-Adha later. Eid al-Fitr is a three-day-long festival and is known as  the “Lesser” or “Smaller Eid”  when compared to Eid al-Adha, which is four-days-long and is known as the “Greater Eid.” I found my time in Marrakech extremely eye opening.  Hearing prayer resound throughout the city 5 times a day was very mindful.  It allowed me a moment to 🛑 and be grateful!  STOP in Arabic            Walking into Madina in Rabat, the capital!                            A Marrakech mosque                      The beautiful tile work            Intricate ceilings  Eileen & Hansa overlooking th

 Words of the day are from reflection fro Richar Rohr and his Daily Contemplations.  These “eloquent” words are from Thomas Merton and Rachel Scrubus: “ Even our mistakes are eloquent, more than we know.” [1] Thomas Merton “A sense of sacred irony, of eloquent mistakes, has for centuries enabled Christians to call the Friday of Jesus’ tortuous execution “good.” This is not a matter of putting a happy spin on a grisly, unjust tragedy. Good Friday, and all Christian life, is about embracing paradox.“ So, how do I, we as a world justify the paradox of Israeli soldiers beating Muslims in their place of worship during their most holy month of Ramadan?  How do we justify rich countries treating their immigrants like cattle?  But wait, they aren’t “their” or “our”.  They are the “other.” So England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 can place them on barges  as they await shipping them, “the other” back to Rwanda 🇷🇼.  How can Italy 🇮🇹, the home of our Pope, and all of the EU 🇪🇺 allow migrants to die every