I cannot do anything to cause the flow of grace over my process except to stand firmly in my circumstances just as they are — and that takes grit.
Grace & Grit
Author: Julie Ann Stevens
My art flows from the patterns & paths of my lived experience which ⏤ like yours ⏤ are at once deeply personal and entirely universal.
Holy Emergence
New rhythms for daily life have been born for many of us while sheltering in place. Perhaps the slower, more deliberate — even drawn out — pace of moving through each day has delighted you in ways that surprise you. Perhaps your heart has been awakened in the spaciousness of an empty calendar that first annoyed you, but now holds a mysterious alluring aliveness.
Holy Quarantine
It's very apophatic, this process, and takes practice to let God fill in the gaps in unspeakable ways.
Denying darkness
Might we gradually befriend the darkness that we deny? Might we gently enter the slow, the deep, the unknown places we've been avoiding?
