One-Minute Icon – Divine scaffolding of #contemplation
Take a minute to step out of clock-time. Do you crave the gaze of being noticed on Facebook or Twitter?Can you face being hidden? Contemplation wraps our transformation in divine scaffolding. It hides us from the unreality of the narcissistic gaze, and places us in the reality of God’s gaze.
One-minute Icon – temporary sanctuary #sanctuary
A temporary sanctuary in Hampstead. Step out of clock time for one minute, gazing attentively.
Do you build sanctuary into your day, quietly, unobtrusively?
Is it a place, a practice? A person?
One Minute Icon 4 – am I unreconciled? #contemplation
reconciliation by shaun lambert
Step out of clock time for one minute. Focus on the painting. If your mind wanders, note where it wanders and come back to the painting. Where is your mind wandering? If the painting brings you into a new place of open awareness, what is it that comes to mind? Carrying unreconciled things is a heavy burden. (The embrace was inspired by a sculpture at Coventry Cathedral, a duplicate of which is in the Peace Garden in Hiroshima, Japan). (see also an earlier post in April, The Mystical Boat)
One-Minute Icon 3 Watch and pray #contemplation
Olive tree that watched
The Olive tree that was there in the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus said, ‘watch and pray..’ (Mark 14:38). Step out of clock time for one minute, and use the photo to help you watch and pray. How do you read it: what does it write on your awareness, heart, mind and soul? What does it bring to mind? As we are reminded of the fragility of life there is something of the stable presence of God…The tree is a gift of the Invisible One.Lord we watch the storm and pray…
One-minute Icon 2 #Icons
One Minute Icon 2
Step out of clock time for one minute. Switch your attention to this photo.
How do you read this? What does it write in your awareness, feelings, thoughts?Do you have joy to offer this morning?
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