New Look, New Find & Mary
I thought the new year could do with some color. I am an artist after all! So I’ve updated my blog’s look. I welcome any comments you have & ideas on how to improve it.
I have discovered (actually she discovered me first…) an amazing new blogger Epiphany Girl. You’ve got to check her out. She writes so beautifully about spirituality!
Epiphany girl pointed out to me that the poem about Mary in my post about the feminine and the Divine has a dig at women in it. Hildegard gives it to Eve pretty strongly. I have a lot to say about Eve, but I’m still working up a full post. In the meantime I decided that there must be some Christian poetry somewhere that captures the beauty of the feminine nature of the Divine in a way that really speaks to me without putting women down. I was lucky to happen across Steve who told me about the Liturgy of St Basil which is used twelve times a year in Orthodox Churches:
All of creation rejoices in you, O Full of Grace, the assembly of angels and the race of men. O Sanctified Temple and Spiritual Paradise, the Glory of Virgins, from whom God was incarnate and became a child, our God before the ages. He made your body into a throne, and your womb He made more spacious than the heavens. All of creation rejoices in you, O Full of Grace. Glory to you!
This is so amazing!
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4 Responses “New Look, New Find & Mary”
I think when I first found you I said something about a quiet smile of recognition dawning on my face. Well, it an out right grin now! Thank you so much for what I cannot think call anything more artful than a “shout out” (gratitude sometimes hijack my vocabulary).
I was just popping over to thank you for your kind comments on my blog and to let you know that positive feedback from someone like you who has created a space so blessed with the vision and beauty means so much to me. Though my friends and family have been great and encouraging, it is just so wonderful to have someone who has some experience in the blog world tell me I am on to something here. The project needed a new lease on life to make it out of its infancy and you have so given that to me!
I found a delicious poem about Eve and Lilith this afternoon that may end up in a post soon (before I discovered spirituality, I knew poetry and it is such a window on the sacred for me) – we can start an Edenic conversation between our two worlds!
Again, thanks and blessings.
I love the new look, it’s beautiful.
Epiphany Girl does have a beautiful blog. I intend to spend more time there.
I love the images and colors on your blog. Thanks for the link, too. I so like to visit here, but do not often make comments–sometimes I have no words!
Epiphany Girl- looking forward to the conversation…
Hi there gartenfische, glad you like the update. I knew you’d like Epiphany Girl!
Jan, I’ve noticed from your blog that you have an understanding of the value of silence & stillness! I love your comments, but silence is golden too! See you on your blog soon!