The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Dona Nobis Pacem 2011

Friday, November 4, 2011

Dona Nobis Pacem 2011

Peace begins with a smile.

~Mother Teresa

DONA NOBIS PACEM

8 comments:

Ivanhoe said...: And I will be smiling all day :) Peace to you today and always!; November 4, 2011 at 9:50 AM
Anndi said...: I've seen this quote a lot today.. and it is so true :); November 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM
Travis Cody said...: Indeed. I thought so too.

Best wishes to you and yours for peace today and in all the days to come.; November 4, 2011 at 3:54 PM
Karen Jo said...: I love it. Simple and oh, so true. Peace be with you today and every day.; November 4, 2011 at 7:39 PM
yoborobo said...: It does indeed. We should all smile more. :) <---from me to you. xo Pam; November 4, 2011 at 9:25 PM
MADelineWoe said...: smiles to you!; November 5, 2011 at 4:51 PM
Annelisa said...: I always love to see the peace symbol associated with the Earth :-)

Peace to you and yours!

[A link to your post will be on my blog 'Peace Bloggers Unite' soon]

If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been to bed with a mosquito - Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop; November 19, 2011 at 4:16 PM
Mimi Lenox said...: Love that you participated. Your blog is so well organized and artistic. A joy to read. Thank you for blogging for peace with us.

You are #2386 in the Official Peace Globe gallery at Blogblastforpeace.com

Please join us again November 4, 2012.

Dona nobis pacem,
Mimi; April 6, 2012 at 11:16 PM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.