Shop to Help Shelters

Thanks to Romeo the Cat for this information.

If you're like me, you prefer to shop online whenever possible. If you're like me--intuitive, empathic--i.e., sensitive to crowds, noise--and don't want to get all cranky shopping at malls, you like to shop with a mouse click here, a mouse click there... here a click, there a click, everywhere a click click (oops, started channeling "Old MacDonald had a farm" for a bit...)

So someone had a great idea of starting a portal that leads to major online retailers who promise to donate between 1% and 6% of purchases that start through that portal, to the Bring Pets Home Foundation.

Please click here to go to bringpetshome.org and click "shop to help" and get some of that holiday shopping done!

Thank you--and the animals thank you.

Grace

The Episcopal Church and Visual Arts, Inc. have collaborated on an online exhibition of artists' depictions of grace. It can be found here.

Viewing the slide show is quite stunning. More importantly, meditating on images that move you is an exercise in aligning yourself with the divine quality of grace.

The angels say:

People think of the idea "there but for the grace of God go I" but what does grace really mean? There is the Christian idea of grace that seems limited to a Christian view of salvation but it's bigger than that.

Grace isn't about human undeservedness or unenlightenedness. It's not about the human. It's about the divine working THROUGH you, about something transcendent. Yes, it's undeserved. Yet it transcends ideas of sin and deservedness.

Grace is God pouring divinity through all of creation for the sheer joy of spreading love, peace and joy. It is God creating because creation is a joyful act. It is the satisfaction of a small child fingerpainting that is the same as God creating a new solar system or an infant. It's beauty. It's wonder. It's sheer, breathtaking magic.

And these artists, being creative in the way God is, have imagined grace and captured it in their own ways. Contemplate grace--and then do something creative. Dance. Write poetry. Laugh and sing. Be joyful as your Creator is joyful. Acknowledge God's presence in the little things...


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Kitten Cuteness

Thanks to Kristen on twitter for sending me a link to this video on "Your Daily Cute" blog:



Enjoy... this is wonderful. Please take this opportunity to pray for the kittens in the world that they may find homes. There are way too many kittens who don't have the chance to do this. Thank you.

Advent

For fellow Christians--today is the first day of Advent. For interesting daily tips on observing Advent, visit Liturgical Nerds or ButterflyBeacon. Both are friends on Twitter, and good people to follow if, like me, you prefer a liturgical style of Christianity that includes daily reflection and praying the daily office.