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💜 October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month. 💜

I’ve been so moved by how these remembrance angels
are finding their homes.

Whether you gift one or keep one,
my hope is that these angels bring light
to the places where love and loss meet. 🫶🏽

A Sabbath well spent.
Sabbath is about connection, returning to what is most true. It’s not always about ceasing, but about leaning in… into the Presence that holds us, the ground that steadies us, the peace that makes us whole. Today that meant feeling the texture of paint and paper on my fingers, listening to wordless music that soothes my soul, and slowing down enough to breathe… deeply. Sabbath is about coming home, connecting, and returning again to who you truly are— seen, known, and loved by the One who made you.

✨ Today, I finished a paper on seeing those who are overlooked and hearing those others do not. It reminded me how much of life happens in the margins in the quiet pain, hidden grief, unspoken longing.

And this week, as another school shooting shakes our nation, I can’t help but think: how many voices go unheard until it’s too late? How many people walk through our neighborhoods, schools, even our churches, carrying pain that no one has noticed?

Art has a way of teaching us to pay attention. To slow down, to really see the person right in front of us. To hear what isn’t being said out loud.

Now is the time to practice that kind of vision. To open our eyes. To open our ears. To refuse to let the people around us feel invisible.

Because when we change the way we see, the things we see will change.

🧿Creating this collage provided a tangible a way for me to reflect and process the intensive course I attended at a few weeks ago. Now it serves as a reminder to live with eyes wide open.

If God is love, we should be love.
If God is holy, we should be holy.
If God is a consuming fire, well, why not us?
— Michael Bowman, On Fire Under Water

✨my friend, Rev. Michael Bowman, wrote a book! it is mystical, refreshingly honest, and will leave you with the hope that something deeper remains. Buy it, read it, share it with a friend! https://a.co/d/41bvauL

📸 detail shot of T H R E A D S • 36x48 • available at www.MableMade.com

The story of the bleeding woman, found in three of the four Gospels, is one that has always intrigued me. How did she know she needed to touch Jesus’ hem? How did it feel to be made whole? What did she do after?

In my mind, after being made well she went to a river and bathed her renewed body in peace, in joy, in reverence. In delight and in assurance of who she was and whose she was. Beloved.

“Woman of Faith” • 36x36 • available at urbanhomemarket