Room at the Inn

“An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”― Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World

“At Christmas, time deepens. The Celtic imagination knew that time is eternity in disguise. They embraced the day as a sacred space. Christmas reminds us to glory in the simplicity and wonder of one day; it unveils the extraordinary that our hurried lives conceal and neglect. We have been given such immense possibilities. We desperately need to make clearances in our entangled lives to let our souls breathe. We must take care of ourselves and especially of our suffering brothers and sisters.” – John O’Donohue

To make clearances.
Sacred space, brilliant sky, wide-open fields.
Time still, steeping, deepening.
To witness and partake.
Awe, wonder, beauty woven in this very day.
Make room at the inn of your heart.
Invite, open, welcome.
Let it find you.

“Our task is not to somehow inject God into our work but to join God in the work he is already doing in and through our vocational lives.”― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life