![Cleansing Water [rest here for a moment if you like]](http://static.flickr.com/56/118848159_73a2a28488.jpg)
Come my friends
refresh yourselves.
Let the cleansing water
wash over you….
Soothing your spirit
smoothing out the troubles
in your heart.
I send you blessings this spring
of renewal
of rebirthing
of rejuvenation.
Rest here for a moment if you like.
May peace be with you.
I wrote this Artist’s Prayer back in 2001, long before I had conceptualized “Live Your Truth, Love Your Life”. It’s interesting to me how often that theme comes up here. Life works in mysterious ways… Dearest Spirit help me find truth and love in all of my work and my life. Bolster me with strength…
The scarab was personified by Khepri, a sun-god associated with resurrection and new life. The ancient egyptians believed that the scarab beetle came into being of itself from a ball of dung (the idea of self-creation). We are all in a in the process of creating ourselves and our world in each moment. By consciously…
Antistrophes by Rainer Maria Rilke Ah, Women, that you should be moving here, among us, grief-filled, no more protected than we, and nevertheless able to bless like the blessed. From what realm, when your beloved appears, do you take the future? More than will ever be. One who knows distances out to the outermost star…