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Holy Night 8
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Thank You Mary, Katrina, Conrad and whomever else is part of this interactive journaling. Life changing experience for me. 🙏
- Alexandra (Connecticut) 
Holy Night 9
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Inspired by all the readings, in the midst of life events that called me away and prevented a daily interaction, I want to submit my final sketch for a Christmas quilt inspired by these Holy Nights. With profound gratitude to those who organized and engaged together in this celebration. - M (North Carolina)
My Holy Nights were actually “Holy Mornings” – I get up around 4:30 and do my best reading and reflection during this time. I truly enjoyed the deeper look into the two Jesus children over these last several mornings. As someone who grew up in a very fundamental Christian family, I struggled initially with the concept of the second Jesus child. I remember I was about a year into my study of Steiner and Anthroposophy when I came upon the introduction of the 2 Jesuses. It was almost a deal breaker for me, but over the years, I find that I’ve been drawn to any writings or information that deals with this. – My take away is a reminder of how dogma can trip us up. How dogma stagnates our growth. Our drive as humans to know definitively, stands in stark contrast to our need for faith, and the importance of developing our imaginations. The concluding story of the 3 old men on the island, reinforced this feeling of the foolishness of dogma – or an inability to see beyond. As a culminating art activity, I drew a chalk drawing of the Matthew Jesus for Epiphany.
Thank you Conrad and all who accompanied! - Jennifer (Indiana)
Thank you Conrad and all who accompanied! - Jennifer (Indiana)
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In the Republic of Georgia, where we have been living for almost three years now, Christmas is celebrated at midnight on January 6th. In conclusion to this Holy Nights journaling, I have chosen to celebrate the birth of Christ as the Georgians do when they celebrate at home (and not in their local church). At midnight on January 6, we light a candle and stand with it at an open window - praying silently for the Holy Spirit to enter our house and bless everyone in it and everyone we hold in our hearts. This moment is often accompanied by an Alilo ალილო - lit. Halleluja - tune. Tonight‘s experience reflects so much - my deepening connection to this culture, my journaling, my insights and all the blessings which I have received. It is a catharsis and a cumulation of all the ways, in which I may now bring the new into the world, and with the awareness of a deeper truth that lies in me forever. Halleluja!
- Olivia (Republic of Georgia) |
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What an intense lecture series! I was a bit surprised to think about incarnating with a different etheric and astral body. Not a perspective I considered before, and I had a hard time with that for some reason. Like an attachment I needed to give up perhaps.
And imagining humans without love and compassion!? Are we sure we’ve developed that? Some of the world around us seems like it could have missed that part of evolution! My goodness! Buddha had important work indeed. A theme that came up for me was connection. Developing deeper connections with those in my life and being more appreciative of the relationships that feel like work/obligation to me. Looking at why they feel that way to me and what I can learn from that. I am so grateful for this online group opportunity! I was struggling a bit to keep up and wasn’t able to contribute like i really wanted to nor get to much art work but i did get some table puppets made for a Babushka story with my preschoolers that i will share. Blessings on 2025! - Gretchen (Washington) |
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These are the cards I drew. I only missed one day and not showing is a card drawn from the Tarot app that I have on my phone. it was quite interesting and I was only somewhat puzzled by one. These came from an angel card deck and from a deck a friend gave me when visiting Australia. Happy to have been a member of this Holy Night group. All these postings just lovely. - Kathe (Texas)
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The finished quilt top. It was wonderful to incorporate the artistic process into meditations on the Gospel of Luke, The Ag Lectures, and other Steiner works. I've never used the meditative process in quilt design to this extent before.
- M (North Carolina) |