First Light (WC)

(Wendy Cabell, November 8, 2023, feast day of Our Lady of the Beautiful Fountain/Bellefontaine, Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless Powers, and feast day of Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, Saint Cybi of Caenarvon (son of Saint Wenna/Gwen ferch Cynyr who was sister to Saint Non), Blessed Placidia of Verona and Blessed John Duns Scotus ("...taught that the divine was present in every object in nature, including every human being, precisely in its uniqueness [inspiring Hopkins' term 'inscape']--Laura Rutland, author). Image is "Umm Nur" (a Muslim title for Our Lady meaning "Mother of one who was Light", see also here) by Wendy Cabell, October 14, 2023, fruit of Laura Thompson's Mother of All the World Workshop.)

First Light

(a found prayer)

I am going to Light, to Love, to Life!

--last words of St Elizabeth of the Trinity

loved into being

is Thy way of seeing--speaks

Light into the night

Amen!

*The "found-lings" used/adapted above are verses collected over the course of several Saturdays (August 30-November 5, 2023) while painting during Laura Thompson's Mother of All The World Workshop.

**From combined prompts: Freewrite or otherwise create as inspired by "The Question" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (her lovely "All day, I replay these words: Is this the path of love?" echoes friend Kathy Keary's "Just do the next loving thing"); From Kayleen Asbo (of Mythica’)’s All Souls Online Novena, day 7, November 8, 2023. Also prompt to freewrite or otherwise create as inspired by "Living Earth’s Wisdom" by Bruce Sanguin ("The willow drops her loving arms around our shoulders and brushes us with grace"); From Reverend Dr. Victoria Marie’s Art As Spiritual Practice group, November 8, 2023.