Welcome to Wednesday!
Today we’re going to do something just a bit different.
You see, somehow it’s 4:19 pm and I just realized it was Wednesday!
Very little sleep, two trips to see about new glasses (which I desperately need), a fast stop for lunch, dog food to order, a painting experience to plan for a friend with a big question, and a bit of wandering with some old friends through the kind of wilderness where it feels like somebody just yelled, “Tilt!”.
And, running beneath it all, a song I heard for the first time about 4:30 this morning.
Here’s the story. My Intentional Creativity teacher, Shiloh Sophia McCloud, is offering an amazing workshop that seems to have grown out of what happened when her long devotion to the Holy Mother crashed into the news about immigrant/refugee families being separated in many parts of the US.
If you’re reading this, the odds are pretty high that you, too, are appalled at what’s happening, especially to the children.
Shiloh’s workshop is called Bella Mama and, if you click right here on the title in the pretty colored letters, you can find out if it’s calling your name the way it did mine.
You see, I believe that the more hopeful energy we send into the world, the more hopeful the world will become.
As I’ve mentioned before, it’s going to take a while but that doesn’t have to keep us from starting now! It is, as my paint buddies would say, a WIP, or work in progress. It’s also a Wednesday kind of thing.
And, as soon as I feed the very hungry beasties, I’ll be back to tell you about one other thing I learned today…
If you’d like an opportunity to do something more immediate and tangible to help the border refugees, some friends of mine have come up with a great idea.
Humanitarian aid workers are getting huge numbers of requests from the refugees for rosaries. To find out how to help, click this link for Rosaries for Refugees and read the pinned post at the top of the page. It’s easy and VERY affordable to send a dozen rosaries to folks desperately in need of hope and comfort.
When you think about it, as one of my paint sisters pointed out a week or two ago, we’re all pretty much works in progress. And today is a great day for that!
The art for today is one of the under layers of my Tree of Life painting.