Thirsting for More

Wendi Romero

Description

This collection of stories and poems from the writers of Sacred Center are real stories about our real lives and lived experiences. We’ve been gathering every Thursday morning for the past twelve years in a little cabin in the countryside of Maurice, La. We gather, through centering prayer and ritual, to nurture our individual spiritual lives as well as one another. We come from various backgrounds, cultures, religions, and ethnicities. We are nurses, teachers, artists, writers, mothers, grand-mothers, and caregivers; but once our labels dissolve, we are essentially seekers of sisters who are attentive to the power of the Spirit within. Sacred Center has become a sacred vessel where deep and profound transformation can occur. These stories are sacred to this circle of women, so “care for them and give them away where they are needed,” writes author, Barry Lopez. As you drink deeply and slowly from the stream of our lives, allow it to enter you. May it water your own life and leave you thirsting for more.

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Arts visuels
• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 12 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669845553
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Thirsting for More
 
Writings from Sacred Center
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
with
Wendi Romero
 
Copyright © 2022 by Avis Lyons LeBlanc, Lyn Holley Doucet, Denise Broussard, Trudy Gomez, Patty Prather, Velma LeBlanc Cheramie, Pat Low, Jane DeBlieux, Paula Simm, Betty Landreneau, Cheryl Delahoussaye, Ann Kergan, Elsa Diana Mendoza, Sidney Creaghan, Deidre Montgomery, Wendi Romero, Lissee Spiller, Linda Jacobs Gondron, Patricia Drury Sidman, B.D. Lowry, Janice Richard, Michelle Lafleur MacFadyen, Bridgette Mouton, Gina Bradley.
 
Copyright © 2022 Photographers: Trudy Gomez, Michelle Lafleur MacFadyen, Denise Broussard, Wendi Romero
 
Copyright © 2022 Front Cover Art by Dana Manly
Copyright © 2022 Back Cover Photo by Forrest Montgomery
 
Library of Congress Control Number:
2022916378
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-4557-7

Softcover
978-1-6698-4556-0

eBook
978-1-6698-4555-3
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
 
Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.
 
 
 
 
Rev. date: 10/18/2022
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Doucet
About the Cover Art
Manly
For the Reader
Romero
Thirst
Romero
 
AWAKENINGS AND DISCOVERIES
Lifting the Veil
Montgomery
It’s Not Too Late
Doucet
Dropped at My Door
Gomez
Pilgrimage
Romero
Navigating These Changing Times
Lyons LeBlanc
The Initiation of Dreams
Doucet
 
CELEBRATION AND GRATITUDE
Chrysalis
Cheramie
Sometimes It’s Simple
Romero
Oasis
Gomez
Untitled Reflection
Gomez
Rise
Lowry
You Are a Treasure, a Pearl Beyond Price
Gomez
 
COMMUNITY AND CARING
Apple Pie and My Mother-In-Law
Delahoussaye
A Rare Find
Romero
Holding Space
Romero
Fragile
Gomez
Cord of Three Strands
Broussard
The Gift of Two Mothers
Delahoussaye
I Move Over Your Soul
Creaghan
 

DARKNESS AND SHADOW
Hide and Seek
Prather
As It Was, As It Is, As It Will Be
Romero
Feeling Tired
Broussard
Ode to a Lily Pad
Cheramie
Standing Beneath the Cross
Broussard
All In
Gomez
In the Shadows
Lyons LeBlanc
 

ENCOUNTER AND ENLIGHTENMENT
I Have Seen the Lord
Montgomery
Buster Washington
DeBlieux
In the Shadow of God’s Wings
Broussard
The Light of Eve’s Smile
Lyons LeBlanc
Incarnation
Landreneau
A Taste of the Rapids
Broussard
 

GIFTS AND CALLINGS
Haiku to Living Life
Lyons LeBlanc
The Shape of Everything
Romero
Love and Sacrifice
Broussard
The Artist
Romero
My Calling
Broussard
 

GRIEVING AND GROWING
My Basket of Gifts
Lyons Leblanc
Door Prize at Round Top Poetry Festival
Romero
I Dreamed of You Last Night
Gomez
Alicia
DeBlieux
Goodbye Is for Never
Lyons Leblanc
Grief
Creaghan
Missing Pieces
Gomez
To Grieve
Creaghan
 

HEALING AND HOPING

Great Acadiana Flood of August 2016
Gomez
Lives on Lawns
Gomez
After the Storm
Romero
Handle With Care
Romero
Anchored in Hope
Broussard
Where Would I Be?
Broussard
To Open a Heart
Sidman
  

GRACES AND TRIALS
Rising Waters
Romero
In This Place
Gomez
On Helping and Being Helped
Sidman
The Broken Shell
Richard
The Swift River of Farewell
Creaghan
Yielding
Lowry
 
LEARNING AND WISDOM
Enter
Romero
Reflections
Romero
Curious Freedom
Montgomery
The Eternal Classroom
Low
Visible Sign of a Divine Grace
Creaghan
Not Myself
Gomez
Searching for the Path of Wisdom
Landreneau
 
LEGACY AND INFLUENCE
The Sound of the Pines
Delahoussaye
Her Hands
MacFadyen
Will I Be Remembered?
Broussard
Bits of Sand
Gomez
Build
Lowry
 
LONGING AND LOVING
The Grandmothers
Gomez
Landslide of the Heart
Romero
Valentine, What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Broussard
He Said
Gomez
Holy Longing
Lyons LeBlanc
Love Came Running
Gomez
Rhythm