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Lucy Crichton
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Ethical Eating as Spir...
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Peace Lake
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Recovering Pastors
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Music Circle
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Art and Creativity
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I'd love to know more about what is happening around Peace Lake. I live nearby and am curious about it. I do love the natural beauty of this place and feel a deep connection to the land and lakes. Peace to all. Lucy
180 acre spiritual retreat center in Hillsborough, NH. Graduates of UCS/Wisdom U are members of core faculty.
It is wonderful to know when and where we will meet again. Thanks to all who are involved in setting this up. The quilt is beautiful.
Hi Bill, I like the all ordained as blessing! Thank you. Lucy
For past and current pastors seeking clarity and support on their roles in ministry and how they integrate CS into their theology, thoughts, and practice.
Hello Bill,
What a thoughtful and honest piece that puts words to some shared feelings regarding ordination. I am a "lay" person and interfaith chaplain. I believe that I was ordained by my baptism, not wounded but gifted into the world and commun...
I am so grateful for the music and dance we shared in Asheville.
Music creates community. Tonight I attended a teen concert of Village Harmony, a weeklong learning followed by several weeks of performing a great selection of South African, Bulgari...
Partnering to explore, create and share music for our ComeUnity.
“Wisdom resides in all creative works.”
Hildegard de Bingen: 12th-century musician, artist, scientist, and mystic.
Creation-centered Spirituality Art in action and meditation.
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
I like the three Rs Nettie. It was wonderful to be immersed in CS again. The hospitality of Jubilee and my hosts, the Moore's, was very wonderful. We created community in one short weekend. I appreciate all the conversations, and am grateful to al...
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- At 7:44am on October 1, 2009,
Mel Harding said… - Hi Lucy, Warmest greetings! I'm Mel. I live in England, and I'm new here. I have so much to learn. But please feel free to come on over some time to read my blog. It would be great to chat with you!
- At 12:30am on September 26, 2009,
Lucy Crichton said…
- Good morning Bill,
I read about Rich's experience with brain cancer and I do have empathy for all that you both went through. I'd love to send you a copy of The Healing Handbook, a book that I co-authored with a friend. Both of us dealt with breast cancer and heart related challenges during a similar period of our lives (forties). Glad to be here in my sixties, still active and involved. I hope Rich is doing well too.
Thanks for the comment about leaving parts in - I know I need someone to guide me in how to change a dissertation into a book. I have an idea of someone here to speak with about that.
I re-read my first chapter and liked it - so where do I go from here?
My work now is in a continuing care retirement community. It is a priviledge to be with people in all phases; from adjusting to a new community, to dying - many times after living in the community for twenty or more years! There are quite a few generations who are considered "seniors."
On Wednesday I was walking by a woman's cottage and thought, "I ought to stop and see her." She welcomed me and introduced me to her grandson who had just shared the news that he has cancer. It is pancreatic cancer, and he is a young man, looking forward to retirement, healthy until he went to check out a few signs and symptoms. My heart is sad for him and for his family. It was odd that I chose that moment to visit. I have walked by her home many times and not done so.
I'd be glad to share some of these experiences, new ones every day, and that is why I love being a chaplain.
It is work that takes me to the honest places in people's lives, and what I feel the most is the love that surrounds and unites us.
Lucy
- At 4:51am on September 20, 2009,
Bill Gordon said…
- Well, I certainly like the thread of what you have given me here from your thesis. I would absolutely leave in the parts about you at some level-- I think readers want to connect with the author in non-fiction (they tend to connect with the characters in fiction, and rarely even see the author). Your work is not only hospice related, though. I think anyone who has been through any medical challenge would get value from your insights. My husband, Rich, went through brain cancer a couple of summers ago, including an excision, radiation, and chemo. He survived the first two just fine, but then the chemo nearly killed him. It would have been wonderful to have a CS voice reminding me/us of the passages we were going through, even when his results were really positive. That dark night is terribly frightening for some of us... having a calm voice speaking to me would have been a great help. Give it some real consideration, and then ask yourself how to share that information on a much grander scale. Let me give you a "for instance". This fall I am starting a series of teleseminars with guests whom I will interview/interface with about their expertise. Some of these will have a specifically spiritual, and even more specifically, CS theme. Perhaps we should consider putting you in a seminar to talk about how the paths fit your work in hospice.... There are a ton of options out there... don't shut the door on any of them. It sounds like you have a story that we need to hear.
- At 1:58am on September 20, 2009,
Bill Gordon said…
- Lucy, your writing is so beautiful. You paint poetic images with your words. Do you write outside of correspondence? Your description of Bass Harbor, of your relationship with your parents... beautiful stuff. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and your craft with me.
Bill
- At 10:37am on July 28, 2009,
Matt Henry said… - So glad you're here. Lucy!
- At 11:25pm on July 24, 2009,
Carol Kilby said… - Welcome into this wond'rous web of community!
- At 11:24pm on July 24, 2009,
Carol Kilby said…
- Thanks Lucy for inviting me into 'friends' place. Hearing your stories of what and how you do as your ministry was a light-filled and warming time.
I always enjoy sharing resources for rituals that reflect the wisdom of creation spirituality and free us from religious rationalities. So feel free anytime to brainstorm with us. Launching into our own regular Sacred Circles this year we'll be both creating for and receiving from our own creative community. It may prove to be a very rich year!
- At 11:26am on July 24, 2009,
Sara Damewood said… - Welcome, Lucy!
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- How did you come to discover Creation Spirituality?
- On the Web, looking for divinity schools in the Bay Area. I had heard of Matthew Fox, but never read anything. I soon learned that I knew the four paths from my own experience of living.
- What is your first language?
- English
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