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Learning Atonement Anew...

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                                                                                                                                                                                              AT ONE MENT      Just after breakfast a Mourning Dove perched on my window ledge three stories above her earthly comfort zone.      Upon seeing her there almost instantly ‘atonement’ came to mind. Not the bloody kind theologians and scholars have steadily tried to convince us of over the centuries…      Instead, the at-one-ment of sensing her not afraid of me, now only a foot away with a camera in hand that whirrs and buzzes.   Nor me afraid of her, flapping and fluttering on my ten-inch wide window ledge calling to her children or her mate in the familiar “hoo – hoo - hoo.” Rather, we’re here together face to face without fear.     She and I are one it seems; her purpose and mine the same. Both of us learning to be and to become who God made

REFLECTED BEAUTY

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Chapel at St. John's Abbey Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be sharing some of the poetry I wrote while away this month along with some of the photo's I took.  Hoping you will be blessed by it.    ~  KLW Reflected beauty          Clouds gliding effortlessly across mirrored sky-scrapers.        S herbet, rose and pale lavender skies Long after the sun has set on Siesta Key.        T he silhouette of your beloved on the steamy glass shower door.       Sun-drops on the wind blown ripples of my favorite pond that look like a million points of light.       All of these are reflected beauty.       To which I could add the depth in the eyes of my grand-daughter in which I can see her ancestors three generations past, including me.        Or simply the essence in each and every being…        for isn’t all beauty reflected beauty really? Profound mirroring of the creator in every molecule of creation.        It’s only the terminall