Mondays with Mary - 24 March

Mondays with Mary

a weekly blog post where the Mystery of Life is explored

as Divine;  where Love is the Muse
and her divine touch opens the heart and

brings breathtaking creatures forth!

Here, the Divine Mary, Mother of All,
creatrix, eternal nurturer, bringer of new life
and also witness to suffering and death, is my muse.

You may dip your quill into the glowing ink

and play along with your own musings or you
may ponder with me on the many stories
of Mary and her many names
through the length of time
and who is she today?
in our ordinary lives.

May these weekly posts bring some of the
lustre to your day that they bring to me
and my take on life!

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose

 by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare

I leave this post up for the week and

will announce the lucky winner of the week's

giveaway on the weekend - in time for the

next Mondays with Mary.

See below for this week's giveaway!

The Fourth Teaching

(extract from The teaching for one world : wisdom from Mother Mary by Gina Lake)

Accept Life as it is

It is impossible to love or feel at peace

unless you accept life as it is.

Non-acceptance closes the hart, which is the

doorway to love and peace.  There is no

other way but acceptance to open that door.

When you accept it, peace comes and

love flow once again.

This is a hard truth for the mind to swallow.

because the mind is designed to reject,

resist and desire something other

than the way life is.  This resistance is natural

and how you were built to respond to life.

Nevertheless, there is another way.

The mind's rejection of the way life is does

not have to be your internal experience - your experience of life.

There is another possibility.

Is the mind wise enough to know what is best for it?

Like a child, the mind does not know, but it thinks it knows.

Fortunately, you are inherently wise.

Something else within you knows the truth.

Look to that which is wise within you to determine

your stance toward life.  Your internal experience

is governed either by your or your mind.

Peace and love can be how you feel about life.

Find that which is within you that loves and is at

peace with life just as it is. 

That has always been awake and aware within you.

All the photographs were taken in my studio

with my new mannequin - and as you can see

I am ever so in love with it!!

This week's giveaway is a pouch of 

Mother Mary blessing seeds.

You can read more about them here

Please leave a comment if you sign up to participate

with love

Hettienne

Winner of French Paper Doll!

............ so I put in numbers 1 to 4 in random.org

and the lucky number is 2

PritiLisa!!

Lisa, please send me your postal address and one

of these beautiful French paper doll tags will be shipped to you!!

yay!!!

I am still working on making more French paper doll tags.

They take much longer than what you would think!

so much detail!

Can you see the typewriter under her arm?

and all the lovely squishy ribbon and lace and the

cutest miniature pegs?

and the arms and legs can move!!

Look at all these tiny details!

real vintage buttons!

a tiny tiny embroidery scissors!

a tiny tiny reel of embroidery cotton in her hand

and she comes with a vintage clothing peg!

Such fun in child's play!

Tomorrow is Mondays with Mary, so please

visit and see what I am giving away - maybe you will be

tempted to play along!

with love

Hettienne

Mondays with Mary and French Paper Doll GiveAway

Mondays with Mary

The Third Teaching

from Wisdom from Mother Mary by Gina Lake

Declare Your Deepest Desire

What do you really want?  This question is an

important one because the answer determines where your

energy, attention and resources go.  The answer

is therefore also likely to determine what

you will get.  Sometimes you are not even aware

of what you want, and other times that is all you

are aware of, and you suffer over it.

Following your desires provides you with

opportunities to taste what life has to offer,

and that is how it is meant to be.

So even your more superficial desires are not

a mistake;  they just are not what they pretend to be.

They are not actually important,

and they do not bring you the peace and happiness

you really want.

This is my third teaching.

Declare that you want peace and love.

Feel the depth and power of this desire

and let it fuel your will to give peace and love your attention.

Everyone's evolution eventually comes to this :

You realize that your deepest desire is for peace and love

and you declare this in your heart. 

Then life conspires to bring you exactly that.

You are love and peace.

These are some of the shrines I photographed during my trip

to Kildare, Ireland.  I was amazed to see a Mary statue 

in the middle of a traffic circle!

This week I am gifting one of these Parisian articulated paper dolls.

They are actually tags - you can clip them to a gift

or you can hang them in your studio or

on a mirror.

Be your own kind of Beautiful

or

Write your Story.

They both come with miniature wooden pegs and

a froth of hand dyed lace.

with love

 Hettienne

Winner of Mondays with Mary Giveaway

For Mondays with Mary yesterday

I promised this shrine to a blogging friend

that participates in the hop!

Le Sanctuare - The Sanctuary

I put in four numbers (for the four participants)

into the random number generator

on random.org

and it gave me

NUMBER THREE

Kate Steeper

Congratulations Kate!! 

Please send me your postal address and

I will mail the shrine to you!

Please come back next Monday

and see what I am giving away then!

Maybe I will give a sneak preview later

this week!

Have a wonderful week

blessings

Hettienne

Grow Your Blog Giveaway Today!

This beautiful reliquary shrine from the

Shards of Beauty series

is going to ...........................

SHANE of ROSES, LACE AND BROCANTE

Thank you Shane for participating and congratulations!

May this shrine bring you much joy!!

Please send me your postal address to

hettiennema@gmail.com

and I will send her to you.

blessings

Hettienne

Five more days for Grow Your Blog give-away

There are five more days left for my

give-away in the Grow Your Blog party.

If you would like your name to go into the draw,

please leave a comment.

My GYB post can be found here 

http://www.path-of-divine-love.com/2014/01/grow-your-blog-post-and-giveaway.html

and this is my give-away

A Shard of Beauty

An ancient relic from The Temple of Mary

You can read the full story here

http://www.path-of-divine-love.com/2014/01/mondays-with-mary-shards-of-beauty.html

And you can see other such finds at

www.etsy.com/shop/devata

The winner will be announced here on

Saturday 15 February 2014

good luck!! and blessings

Hettienne

Mother Mary Blessing Seeds

Bless the earth with these blessing seeds : infuse them with your prayers for healing and plant them where you pray. 

Our spiritual Mother, Mary, asks all of us to pray to Her regardless of our religion or culture. She has said to many visionaries that all people are her children – her spiritual children. Our bodies are temporary, but our spirits live forever, that is why Mother Mary is our true Divine Mother, the Mother of our Souls. Her love for all of us is truly that of a mother who would want nothing more than to help her children.

I created these blessing seeds from ceramic clay that will deteriorate and dissolve back into Mother Earth when buried. Each of these seeds are imprinted with the divine image of Divine Mary and thus contains Her sacred energy. They are also packed with roses petals of third relic St Teresa of Lisieux roses!! The images include Our Lady of Guadulupe, Madonna of the Streets, Miraculous Medals, the dove, a rose, the face of Jesus, Mother and Child, sacred heart and angel wings.

You can say a prayer whilst holding the seed in your hand, and then make a hole in the ground with your finger and plant these seeds wherever you want healing to take place. This way you can call on Mother Mary as you walk on her earth; you can place these at sacred places; in your garden or at places of sadness and trauma.

These beautiful handmade blessing seeds are packaged with blessed  pink salts, sprinkled with sacred waters from Lourdes and dried rose petals which were touched to the St Teresa roses, carefully wrapped in tissue paper in a voile bag. An image of Mary with the above information will accompany your Blessing Seeds. Each bag contains 21 or 33 blessing seeds - you can choose.

Each one of the blessing seeds are first infused with holy water from Lourdes (which I brought back), and then infused with holy relic oil of more than 53 Saints & pure essential oils. A mixture of one hundred oils are used, including frankincense, myrrh, spikenard, agarwood and rose. It is also immersed in blessed pink dead sea salts, infused with rose petals steeped in holy oil of a third relic of St Therese of Lisieux and it is packaged with blessed salts, frankincense and sprinkled with holy water collected form many sacred places in the world. So it becomes a holy object to be handled with reverence and care. 

You can place these seeds on your altar or place of prayer or contemplation.

Pray to Divine Mary, She is as close as your heart

Ave Maria

I am giving a set of Mother Mary Blessing Seeds away

as part of the Grow your Blog blogparty on

Her Grace by Devata.

Visit my blog at http://hergracedevata.blogspot.com,

maybe you would like to follow

or just leave a comment on 24 January

and you may be the lucky one who receives these

blessing seeds

Blog party, give-away and inspiration!!

Maybe you have seen this invitation on my sidebar.

2 Bags Full for the second year in a row

is offering this blog party and already 222 bloggers have

signed up.

Here in South Africa, life is in a hiatus.  The schools close for

close to two months;  the builders trade closes for a month;

families get together and all focus is on Christmas and New Year

celebrations, holidaying by the sea side, cooking many meals

for the family and no time is left for blogging!!

So this blogging party is just what I am looking for!

With so many blogs participating one is sure to find new inspiration,

creative ideas and kindred souls!

And just to add to my inspiration to create,

I am offering a give-away!!

The party post and give-away will go up here on

23 January 2014 and one of those who comment

on the post, will receive the give-away.

What will I gift as a give-away?

I am thinking maybe one of my handmade pendants

see my pendants on Her Grace on Etsy.com

https://www.etsy.com/shop/Devata

or maybe a  handmade shrine of the Madonna!

My other blog Her Grace by Devata

http://hergracedevata.blogspot.com

will always be participating, you have two chances

of winning a give-away!

So exciting!

Maybe you would like to participate as well - just find your way to

http://vicki-2bagsfull.blogspot.com/2013/10/grow-your-blog-2014-this-is-official.html

where you will find full instructions!

blessings