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Catherine Lawton

Poetry Helps Us Open Our Hearts to God

by Christine Sine March 22, 2023

by Catherine Lawton In our experience of God’s presence, poetry can help us focus and engage our senses and entire being. Poetry can help us process life and emotions—and see …

March 22, 2023

Books Christmas Community nature welcome

What Is Coming to Our World?

by Christine Sine December 27, 2022

by Cathy Lawton One Christmas all our young grandchildren came to visit. We enjoyed playing in the snow, baking cookies, sledding down the hill, watching the backyard birds and making …

December 27, 2022

gratitude nature Prayer

He Restores My Soul

by Christine Sine November 9, 2022

by Catherine Lawton Stressed, working hard to prepare books for publication amid several life adjustments, one morning I knew I had to attend to my soul. For me, soul care …

November 9, 2022

creation care Gardening

Be(e) Doing Good – Hospitality in Nature

by Melissa Taft September 13, 2022

by Catherine Lawton As my husband and I make our backyard garden a hospitable place for creatures, pollinators, and people … I watch the bees on flowers (like in these …

September 13, 2022

community transformation Holidays

Cesar Chavez and Human Dignity

by Melissa Taft March 31, 2022

by Catherine Lawton Sometimes the thought of being a child again is appealing. Not so many worldly cares, decisions, responsibilities. A comfortable home provided for you. Time to run and …

March 31, 2022

contemplation Poems Rhythms of life

January

by Melissa Taft January 18, 2022

by Catherine Lawton JANUARY A captive to granite gray stare, I shiver and hunker there. Clouds shudder also and shake loose frozen crystals flashing slivers of light. Now silver gleam …

January 18, 2022

nature Thanksgiving and Gratitude

Nature Teaches Us About Facets of Truth

by Lisa DeRosa October 12, 2021

by Catherine Lawton, When I attended the Monet exhibition at the Denver Art Museum two years ago, I enjoyed viewing up close the originals of many of Claude Monet’s famous paintings. …

October 12, 2021

poetry Time to Heal

Treasures of Darkness : Holy Stillness

by Lisa DeRosa March 27, 2021

by Catherine Lawton I have found that spiritual, emotional, and physical healing can begin even in times that are darkened, cold, alone, silent … when I still my heart and contemplate …

March 27, 2021

creation care Poems poetry

I can’t breathe – World Soil Day

by Lisa DeRosa December 5, 2020

by Lisa DeRosa To tell you the truth, I was not aware that World Soil Day existed until I began looking through the UN observances list. Today, we celebrate the …

December 5, 2020

Discernment Poems poetry

A More Excellent Way?; A Poem

by Lisa DeRosa September 16, 2020

Catherine Lawton shares this poem with us as an encouragement and welcome to discernment today. May we take the time to prayerfully consider and listen to the stirrings of the …

September 16, 2020

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