Friday, January 26, 2007
A Most Gorgeous Gift!
Blessed be the precious and preserving air,
the breath of life, our inspiration and delight.
Blessed be the precious and preserving fire,
the blood of life, our warming guest.
Blessed be the precious and preserving water,
the water of life, our cleansing guest.
Blessed be the precious and preserving earth,
the flesh of life, our sustainer and our wisdom.
Caitlin Matthews
That lovely set of lines accompanied a gift we received yesterday from our dear Abingdon friends Ann and Chris Johnson : a gorgeous piece of fabric art entitled THE FOUR ELEMENTS, created by the woman who wrote those lines as well: Caitlin Matthews...
A wall hanging in most beautiful jewel tones, predominantly deep red to match our dining room walls,and composed of fabric, beads,embroidery,....so very beautiful. Like a precious little piece of quilting art, each piece of velvet and satin and beaded cloth carefully and lovingly attended to in the making...luscious...so luscious. THANK YOU, ANN AND CHRIS!
How can people be so filled with wonderful things,like love and generosity and caring and wisdom, and then you open the newspapers and read how people can also be loathsome and vile and mean and murderous and hate-filled and stupid?
When we are fortunate enough to be able to luxuriate in the kind impulses of our friends, and be made to know the possibilities of a loving world because of their acts of kindness and thoughtfulness, it's easy to forget what is in the newspapers...for a while...and the answer to my question (how can such glory and such vileness exist in the same creature) is, obviously, forever unanswerable, except by the deepest faith and study of that faith....but still, I get so angry, so vengeful and hate-filled myself when I read of peoples' cruelties...and so the world goes 'round....
I send love to it...to the world and all who I know and don't know..I send all the love i can manage. Please open your arms and let it in....
the breath of life, our inspiration and delight.
Blessed be the precious and preserving fire,
the blood of life, our warming guest.
Blessed be the precious and preserving water,
the water of life, our cleansing guest.
Blessed be the precious and preserving earth,
the flesh of life, our sustainer and our wisdom.
Caitlin Matthews
That lovely set of lines accompanied a gift we received yesterday from our dear Abingdon friends Ann and Chris Johnson : a gorgeous piece of fabric art entitled THE FOUR ELEMENTS, created by the woman who wrote those lines as well: Caitlin Matthews...
A wall hanging in most beautiful jewel tones, predominantly deep red to match our dining room walls,and composed of fabric, beads,embroidery,....so very beautiful. Like a precious little piece of quilting art, each piece of velvet and satin and beaded cloth carefully and lovingly attended to in the making...luscious...so luscious. THANK YOU, ANN AND CHRIS!
How can people be so filled with wonderful things,like love and generosity and caring and wisdom, and then you open the newspapers and read how people can also be loathsome and vile and mean and murderous and hate-filled and stupid?
When we are fortunate enough to be able to luxuriate in the kind impulses of our friends, and be made to know the possibilities of a loving world because of their acts of kindness and thoughtfulness, it's easy to forget what is in the newspapers...for a while...and the answer to my question (how can such glory and such vileness exist in the same creature) is, obviously, forever unanswerable, except by the deepest faith and study of that faith....but still, I get so angry, so vengeful and hate-filled myself when I read of peoples' cruelties...and so the world goes 'round....
I send love to it...to the world and all who I know and don't know..I send all the love i can manage. Please open your arms and let it in....
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