Edvard Munch. Melancholy. Art Museum of Bergen. I am alone, waiting in the tomb. There is nothing else I can do. I try to believe the darkness and stillness here will allow something new to be resurrected on the other […]
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The Darkness of the Tomb
Edouard Manet. The Dead Christ with Angels. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Holy Saturday—the quietest of all days. The tomb that held Your broken body was dark and silent. Heaven held its breath. A shimmering stilling making ready for glorious resurrection […]
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Rembrandt. Head of Christ. Philadelphia Art Museum. It is Lent again, Jesus; the season that summons me into the wilderness with You and into the humiliation of heartfelt repentance. It is a call to stretch out my hand and grab hold […]
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Georgia O’Keefe. Lake George Reflection. Love that transforms can only come from within. Our heart is at the center of our being human. There, our deepest thoughts, intuitions, and emotions find their source. It is also there that we are […]
Read More about Transform Your World From WithinSeptember 12
The transformation we all long for occurs in the intimate embrace of our Divine Lover, in the still, hidden places of the soul. ~Betty
View Meditation about September 12The Science of the Psalms
Many thousands of years ago, every joyous, negative, fearful, and even murderous emotion of the human heart was put to music in the majestic poetry of the Psalms. Thomas Merton, Trappist monk and American writer, said, “The Psalms are more […]
Read More about The Science of the PsalmsApril 25
We have to learn to trust the darkness of new birth. We don’t always see it but new life is being birthed; it is underneath the darkness and pain. ~Betty
View Meditation about April 25December 14
To shed our false self and take on a new awareness, we have to consent to the relentless struggle between the overwhelming fears that paralyze us and the love that enlarges us beyond measure. It is in the struggle that […]
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