The World Loves You Back
“Even here, we will dwell…Even here, we delight”
Here’s my mid-week round-up of others’ holy labor. Let me know what you’re enjoying.
This Eye Contact essay on the spirituality of being seen introduced me to Eric Clayton via
. Then I found his great essay on Ignatius’ “cannonball moment” at his own Substack:.Can’t stop thinking about Meg Hunter-Kilmer’s essay on Servant of God Stanisława Leszczyńska: The Midwife of Auschwitz Who Delivered Thousands of Babies and Saved Thousands of Lives (Church Life Journal).
A poem for when you need to remember you are held: “The World Loves You Back” by James Crew.
Sarah Clarkson’s lyrical writing on mental illness (have you read This Beautiful Truth?) reaches full bloom in her essay from Plough: My Mind, My Enemy.
I am absolutely taken with these layered landscape prints from Molly Noem Fulton. Her shop is open now, and thus I have continued my coping-with-chemo-by-buying-art strategy.
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Constant prayers for you and yours. Blessings on blessings.
Thanks for the shoutout!