Prayer

4 Sep, 2020

Happy Labor Day

Nancy Admin2020-09-04T06:00:25+00:00Categories: Current Events, Holidays, Labor Day Weekend, Memory, Pets, Prayer, Sacramento, Summer|Tags: Endurance, Labor Day, Pandemic, Persistence, Photos, Summer Vacation|

This Labor Day Weekend, I'm celebrating persistence and endurance as we make it through a second season of this Worldwide Pandemic. I continue to offer affirmations and prayers for better [...]

21 Aug, 2020

Ordination

Nancy Admin2020-08-21T06:00:17+00:00Categories: Books, Creativity, Current Events, Forgiveness, Grace, home, Hope, Joy, Light, Musings, Prayer, Sacrament, Soul, Spirituality|Tags: Caroline Myss, Chakras, Corona Summer, healing, Ordination, Sacraments, Why People Don't Heal and How They Can|

It was pointed out to me in recent years that the Catholic Church has seven sacraments for men but only six for women. I already knew that, but I had [...]

10 Jul, 2020

Time to Re-Open Schools?

Nancy Admin2020-07-10T06:00:15+00:00Categories: Children, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Demonstrations and Protests, Families, home, Hope, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Sacramento, Sheltering-in-Place, Teaching, Writing|Tags: Betsy DeVos, Classroom instruction, Corona Virus Testing, Health, Instructional Delivery, Poverty, Republican president, Schools|

This week when the Republican President and his entitled Secretary of Education demanded that public schools open full time/full service this fall, virus or no virus, OR they would lose [...]

3 Jul, 2020

Pray For Our Country

Nancy Admin2020-07-03T06:00:53+00:00Categories: 4th of July, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Grace, Grief, Holidays, Hope, Illness, Joy, Musings, Prayer, Soul, Spirituality, Summer|Tags: God, Prayer, religion, the nature of reality|

I had something else laid out and ready to go this week, but coming up on the Independence Day Holiday, I felt a need to say something more. When [...]

12 Jun, 2020

The Story of My Hydrangea Bush

Nancy Admin2020-06-12T06:00:26+00:00Categories: Books, Current Events, home, Light, Magical Realism, Musings, Poetry, Prayer, Teaching, Writing|Tags: angel, apparitions, Blessed Virgin Mary, contemplation, gardens, hydrangeas, Kate Farrell, Kenneth Koch, Poetry, sheltering in place, Sleeping On The Wing, slowness, temporal nature, Transfiguration, Writing|

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I was dipping into Sleeping on the Wing by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell, an anthology of poetry and writing prompts written for [...]

5 Jun, 2020

Black Lives Matter

Nancy Admin2020-06-05T06:01:49+00:00Categories: Books, Current Events, Demonstrations and Protests, Families, Grief, Hope, Prayer, Sheltering-in-Place, Social Media|Tags: Alex S. Vitale, Black Lives Matter, DefundThePolice, Demonstrations, Prayer, protests, racism, Robin Diangelo, The End of Policing, White Fragility|

This has been a very upsetting couple of weeks, but if you’re paying attention you already know that. Because of the continuing pandemic, I choose to be mostly homebound, writing, [...]

29 May, 2020

Continued Sheltering, part three

Nancy Admin2020-05-29T06:00:27+00:00Categories: Books, Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, home, Hope, Joy, Musings, Poetry, Prayer, Sheltering-in-Place, Spirituality, Summer, Teaching, Writing|Tags: Dreams, Health, life, reading, Spirit|

Greetings! If you’re a regular reader, you know the past two weeks I’ve suggested some prayers that I’ve found helpful, and I continue to encourage everyone to write prayers and [...]

22 May, 2020

A Prayer for Trying Times

Nancy Admin2020-05-22T06:00:08+00:00Categories: Covid 19, Creativity, Current Events, Exercise, Grace, home, Hope, Joy, Musings, Prayer, Reality, Spring|Tags: Divinity, God, Meditation, Mindfulness, Prayer, Spirit|

This week I want to share a prayer my late friend Craig taught me. It’s very simple: “Release into Essence.” Essence was Craig's word for Divine Energy or God. It’s [...]

15 May, 2020

Sheltering-in-Place, part 2

Nancy Admin2020-05-15T06:00:24+00:00Categories: Covid 19, Current Events, Families, Grace, home, Hope, Musings, Prayer, Sheltering-in-Place, Spirituality, Writing|Tags: cats, Covid19, current events, Family, Prayer|

Greetings to everyone who is sheltering in place as I am. How are you? I am fine. There are many things we could complain about—and if that’s what you want [...]

10 Apr, 2020

Praise Poem

Nancy Admin2020-04-10T06:00:39+00:00Categories: Creativity, Current Events, Easter, Grace, Joy, National Poetry Month, Poetry, Prayer, Spirituality, Spring, Writing|Tags: creation, Divinity, Easter, Energy, nature, revelation, Spirit, spring|

I want to wish everyone a peaceful Holy Week, and a Blessed Easter. I wrote this poem a few months ago. I'd seen another praise poem, written like this, designed [...]