Fireworks, Vernon Bridge, 1908, by Theodore Earl Butler. Public domain image courtesy of Wikimedia.
“While our culture is all gloss and pace on the outside, within it is too often haunted and lost.”
“The commercial edge of so-called ‘progress’ has cut away a huge region of human tissue and webbing that held us in communion with each other.
We have fallen out of belonging.”
“Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect, encourage and guide us as we cross over into the unknown.
For such crossings, we need to find new words.” ~ John O’Donohue, Benedictus: A Book of Blessings
And that is exactly what benediction is at its most genuine and heart-felt: the powerful words and energy of blessing.
Blessing magic. The ‘power of the Word’. Word alchemy that ripple outward as vibrational ‘healing medicine’ … much better than the toxic prayer at the other end of that word magic spectrum.
But we feel it, too, as well as see the effects around us. It’s good medicine all the way around.
Jamie has long been an inspiration partner and lantern-holder for her fellow transformation leaders, change catalysts, and creative nonconformists who are living, inspiring, and (intentionally or not) leading the way in these chaotic times.
When she's not tending and stirring the Sophia's Children cauldron, she's following research trails, and serving as the Director of a Repro-Justice-oriented women's health center in her community, co-creating a safe, in-person compassionate care environment in a world that increasingly seems to lack that.
Jamie is a long-time servant of the Muse, a writer and author, an intrepid walker and feline-tender, and is passionate about the healing power and relevance of reclaiming ancestral-wisdom and healing (or at least understanding) ancestral (and other types of) trauma. She has great appreciation for dark chocolate and cooking other nourishing, delicious meals -- often plant-based -- to nourish her partner and her peeps, and otherwise doing the same day to day things we all do.
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Beautifully said Jamie.. May we find our Belonging in our Unity of understanding .. We are all blessed.. And I am so grateful for the Power of our words that communicate our Blessings
May you and others continue to reach out and join the Blesstival Wave. <3 <3
January 22, 2016 at 7:44 pm
Beautifully said Jamie.. May we find our Belonging in our Unity of understanding .. We are all blessed.. And I am so grateful for the Power of our words that communicate our Blessings
May you and others continue to reach out and join the Blesstival Wave. <3 <3
January 22, 2016 at 7:55 pm
Words are powerful. Great post, Jamie!
January 22, 2016 at 8:37 pm
This is what you do so beautifully, Jamie <3
January 23, 2016 at 5:31 pm
Many thanks, Anna Lin. And you as well, sowing prayers and blessings as you do. As we know, it’s a practice. 🙂 xoxo Love, Jamie
January 23, 2016 at 11:18 am
mmmm, las bendiciones muy rico! from one heart to many…gracias
January 23, 2016 at 5:33 pm
Indeed, Elena. ¡Viva la bendición! 🙂 xoxo and Big Love, Jamie