Blooming of the Heart

Blooming of the Heart

Soulcollage image by Hettienne - read in sidebar about 

Soulcollage images 

"The purpose of life is not to do as the majority do,

but to live according to the inner law 

which you understand in yourself"

For the Unknown Self

Picture taken in my garden at my home (Sancta Maria)

For the Unknown Self

So much of what delights and troubles you

Happens on a surface

You take for ground.

Your mind thinks your life alone,

Your eyes consider air your nearest neighbor,

Yet it seems that a little below your heart

There houses in you an unknown self

Who prefers the patterns of the dark

And is not persuaded by the eye's affection

Or caught by the flash of thought.

It is a self that enjoys contemplative patience

With all your unfolding expression,

Is never drawn to break into light

Though you entangle yourself in unworthiness

And misjudge what you do and who you are.

It presides within like an evening freedom

That will often see you enchanted by twilight

Without ever recognizing the falling night,

It resembles the under-earth of your visible life:

All you do and say and think is fostered

Deep in its opaque and prevenient clay.

It dwells in a strange, yet rhythmic ease

That is not ruffled by disappointment;

It presides in a deeper current of time

Free from the force of cause and sequence

That otherwise shapes your life.

Were it to break forth into day,

Its dark light might quench your mind,

For it knows how your primeval heart

Sisters every cell of your life

To all your known mind would avoid,

Thus it knows to dwell in you gently,

Offering you only discrete glimpses

Of how you construct your life.

At times, it will lead you strangely,

Magnetized by some resonance

That ambushes your vigilance.

It works most resolutely at night

As the poet who draws your dreams,

Creating for you many secret doors,

Decorated with pictures of your hunger;

It has the dignity of the angelic

That knows you to your roots,

Always awaiting your deeper befriending

To take you beyond the threshold of want,

Where all your diverse strainings

Can come to wholesome ease.

-John O'Donohue (1956-2008)

Copyright of pictures

  Great was my surprise when I found this image of mine

on an Etsy shop for sale!!!

You can purchase my photograph in various sizes,

in a frame, without a frame

and as stationery!

The only problem is that the shop is not my shop,

but Bernadette's Cupboard

and I did not give permission for my photograph to be used

and definitely not sold.

When I contacted the shop owner she challenged me

as to how did I copyright the picture and how can I

prove that I am the photographer, despite the fact

that I pointed her to this blog post where I shared

the sacred process of creating this devotion

http://www.path-of-divine-love.com/2012/02/holy-day-of-our-lady-of-lourdes.html

For those who are uncertain about copyright, I found the following on

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/copyright-fair-use-and-how-it-works-for-online-images/

Copyright attaches at the time of creation and there is no requirement to use the “circle c”. Image source: renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Copyright is a federal law of the United States that protects original works of authorship. A work of authorship includes literary, written, dramatic, artistic, musical and certain other types of works.

Copyright attaches as soon as the original work is created, and applies to both published and unpublished works. As soon as you type words, click the shutter on your camera (or, for many of you, hit the home button on your iPhone), apply paint to canvas or paper or lay down tracks for your next hit, you’ve got a copyright (with some exceptions).

Copyright is an automatic right and does not require the author to file special paperwork, as is the case for trademark and patent. Registration is required to enforce the rights, but as a matter of right, an author is not required to register anything to get the right to use the “circle c,” showing the work is copyrighted.

One of the many terrific things about copyright is that it comes with a host of exclusive rights that allow the owner to do or authorize a number of things and exercise substantial control over his or her work. The copyright owner has the right to do four things (called exclusive rights):

1.            Reproduce the copyrighted work;

2.            Display the copyrighted work publicly;

3.            Prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work; and

4.            Distribute copies of the copyrighted work to the public by sale, rental or lending, and/or to display                the image.

I am more upset about my picture being named May Day!! and somewhere

else Mary in the Garden, than the fact

that someone else is making money from it.

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

Please join in and visit

http://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2013/09/mornings-with-mary-our-lady-of-the-milagros.html

blessings