DREAM STRINGS

DREAM STRINGS

Dream Strings

Delicate, dreamy threads that each of us - all of us - weave together to become our reality. These are baby steps we take to make our dreams come true...sending the email query, printing the photographs we hope to exhibit, or breaking ground on a replica of a sharecropper shack in Clarksdale, MS.



The tapestry of our dream life is woven with Dream Strings.


~ Q U O T E S ~

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Goethe

The only joy in the world is to begin. Pavese

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible. Oprah





Thursday, April 22, 2010

Confirmation - April 12

When you are "confirmed," you are sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.

The ceremony was a beautiful, ritual-rich event: it was held at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, "girls in white dresses," John Angotti was the soloist, and the Bishop was entertaining (wearing 3-D glasses) while delivering a powerful message (seeing differently with Christian eyes).

The foundation of his message was Luke 10:23, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see."

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are: Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel (right judgment), Courage, Knowledge, Reverence and Fear (awe). For my non-Catholic friends, these are a different and a separate listing from the fruits of the Spirit. The gifts are from the Old Testament, fruits are from the New.

Several themes are present in this coming-of-age ritual. Choice, Awakening, Commitment.

I was certainly blessed to see what I saw that Monday evening. And every day, I strive to choose to see the blessing.

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