Wrapping Up: What Are You Seeing, The End

As our forty days conclude, let your thoughts center you.  Let your soul find a calm, spacious place.  Let your eyes, ears, and whole life enter right now into the prayer practice of Visio Divina.

Breathe and be.

Reflection....

The invitation at the beginning was to gaze, to behold, to be-held by a holy presence larger than ourselves, and to listen to what was evoked and invoked within you.

The invitation at the beginning was to a journey of forty photos as we prepared for the birth of Christ, celebrated Christmas, and now have crossed the threshold into a New Year.

The invitation was an opening like in the clouds pictured above.

I am so grateful for your willingness to walk with me through Advent.  The prayer that guided me as I wrote, edited, and then let this devotional loose into the universe was that somehow, in some way, these photos and words might be for us an incarnational moment - a time when God's love (which can feel elusive) was seen, heard, or experienced in some way within you.  Now, I pray that in 2020, you will continue to focus, frame, gaze (not glance) at God’s presence saturating and soaking every single moment of life.

Thank you for taking this journey with me.

Thank you for focusing and framing, gazing at the world in all its beauty and brokenness.

Thank you for being you, for you are a trace of God's grace.

May God's hope, peace, love and joy woven into the world at Christmas continue to be encountered, experienced and explored every day in this year for you and me.

With much love and blessings ~~