Mondays with Mary Love perseveres

I  am writing to you from the Kruger National Park.  One of the biggest natural conservation areas in Africa with an abundance of wild life, including the Big Five and amazing bird life!

I am blogging from my phone with very little internet coverage, so it is quite an undertaking!!

It is spring here in the Lowveld of South Africa and we had some summer rains, but the weather is clearing up with lovely sunny skies.

The one message I noticed everywhere in nature  today is that growth cannot be thwarted when it is filled with the sap of joy and sheer abundance and surrender to life : no getting stuck in worrying over the little details!!

Follow your heart and do not lose your passion when you hit a big rock - look at these trees - they all grow at a picnic spot we stopped at today for a hot cup of camping coffee!!

Sometimes we are faced with disapproval of others or ignorance of our heart's desire and how we view the world and this may make us feel tempted to give up on chasing the rainbow - but Mary's message is no rock is too hard for the Love tree!

i added a wildlife picture or two for you!

p.s. I could not figure out how to get the pictures in the right sequence

I am sharing with Rebecca at Mornings with Mary

I feel it now .....

I feel it now :

there's a power in me 

to grasp and give shape to the world.

I know nothing has ever been real

without my beholding it.

All becoming has needed me

My looking ripens things

and they come toward me, to meet me and be met

Rainer Maria Rilke - words to live by!

Monday mornings with Mary - Seat of Wisdom

Seat of Wisdom *

For wisdom is 

better than jewels,

and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
                                          - The Book of Wisdom

Wearable shrines in the making


*from the Litany of Loreto

My Monday morning with Mary
- this week Rebecca has taken to the open road,
so I am holding vigil for our weekly space
with my sharing which I have come to love!!!

If you would like to see more of my wearable shrines,
rosaries and other creations,
please visit http://hergracedevata.blogspot.com

Have a wonderful week with Mary

blessings

Hettienne

Monday mornings with Mary - a world in my house

memories that I carry with me forever ...

the smell of wet rock,

the sound of the rushing waters,

the drops falling from above

the gentleness of the colour that is Lourdes

and then,

the busyness of Paris,

climbing the many steps up the Sacre Couer de Montmartre

the soothing coolness inside

and then as I turn the corner, my heart feels as though
someone opened a stable door,
in front of me the spectacular

gold statue of Mary in

an aura that defies explanation, religion or faith

On the left is the Madonne from the Basilica at Montmartre and on the right
is the Vierge de Paris or Notre Dame de Paris

Remembering the massive Notre Dame Cathedral

with its thronging masses, people walking as though they

are in a shopping mall and my desperation

to have some time alone in a quiet space

to hear her whispers that called me to visit once again

another trip another time

travelling to the top of the hill which is Marseilles

miles away you can see the magnificent statue

of Notre Dame de Marseilles on the spire

of La Basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde

a house of memories

keeping me company

where I work and play

and remember

Another Monday morning with Mary

with Rebecca and friends

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blessings

Monday mornings with Mary - offering of beauty

Flowers on the altar,

an offering of gratitude and joy,

in our modern day Temple of Mary,

sanctuary for seekers of the  Holy Grail

on the Path of Divine Love

I have missed a few Monday mornings with Mary

as I was preparing for the regular retreat weekend

of The Temple of Mary of which I am the Founder

and Guardian.  These photographs were taken of the main

altar to the Blessed Mother and Son.

And here are some photographs of the beautiful

surroundings in which the Temple community gathers and meet

at Tulbagh, a rural village in the Western Cape.

As you can see it is cold here.

Have a blessed week

blessings