“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”
~Sandra Day O’Connor
Welcome to Weavings!
“We hope this page will be a way to help us see the holy in the smallest and most routine aspects of our daily lives.” -Living Community of Faith team, CCLC
“Weavings,” will provide “spiritual nourishment” each month with brief opportunities to reflect in a way that touches one’s spirit and invites openness to God. “Weavings” refers to the intertwining or weaving of our lives through faith-sharing. This page will be a place where Covenant Companions and Sisters share little reflections, stories, and readings to help us feel God’s presence in daily living.
Toward a Flourishing Future
Haikus – Part 1 of 2
by Mary Ellen Durbin
The natural world has always been a window into the holiness of God, the wonder of creation. Most of my haikus emerge from moments of encounter, and moments of reflection, about our current environmental challenges, in the light of faith and hope. Often, I become very discouraged about our chances for survival as a human species. Since Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si, my awareness, reflection, and my faith in God’s transforming power of love have grown. I participated in the Wheaton Franciscan conversation over the months about Laudato Si’, and I often read our community action plan pledge as a prayer, that I may live with intention and integrity.
Nothing stays the same.
And so, learn how to let go.
Imitate the trees.
I long for wildness
To be deep in the forest,
Where I’ve never gone.
A kind of music
Moves through the trees each morning
As birds and breeze meet
Our world pulsates with
New life and diversity.
Wonders never cease.
The present moment
Holds the world’s great suffering,
And deep compassion.
To be at home in
This mysterious cosmos
Is to be AWAKE.
We are life on Earth.
Wake up and listen to the
Sounds of Earth crying.
The natural course
Is persistent renewal, Life
following death.
There’s a coherence
At the heart of all nature.
The Universe knows.
One enormous sun
Rises in the eastern sky.
Morning humbles me.
At the edge of dawn,
A sliver of a white moon…
Then, slowly, light spills.
Celebrate what’s clear…
Clean air, sunshine, pure water…
The next three seconds.
Nature’s paradox:
Water lilies grow in slime,
From mud…pure beauty.
Wild animals don’t
Try to be anyone else.
They are who they are.
The path of nature
Is filled with diversity.
Everything belongs
WEAVINGS ARCHIVES
- January 2022: Growing Into Peace
- February 2022: Icon Gazing – The Good Shepherd
- March 2022: Unexpected Surprises ~ Part 1
- April 2022: Unexpected Surprises ~ Part 2
- May 2022: Quilting for Hospice Patients
- June 2022: Sharing God’s Presence
- July 2022: Thoughts about “Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of Therese of Lisieux”
- August 2022: A Call To Serve
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