Tag Archives: Prayer

Mar19

Creative Juice #234

Posted on March 19, 2021 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Lots of artsy stuff.

A quilter decided to win an award—and she did!
Cats and other animals in watercolors.
Make Our World Anew: Black Voices Matter—an online choral concert tomorrow night!
Award-winning street photography.
Some lovely sketches.
Editing for self-publishing authors.
Some quilts-in-progress. I especially like the “Wing and a Prayer” quilt.
A prayer that was written a year ago, just as Covid was getting a foothold in the US. I’m feeling less afraid now, but it doesn’t hurt to remember.
Braids didn’t look like this when I was a little girl.
Amazing photographs of Yosemite.
An engaging rhyming picture book and its journey to publication. (And how you can enter a drawing to win one for free.)
For the art-related bloggers: how to find royalty-free art images.

Jan11

Monday Morning Wisdom #292

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Lord, make us instruments of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
~St. Francis of Assissi

Jan8

Creative Juice #224

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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On Tuesday, my husband’s podiatrist told us she got her flu shot. Somehow, that fills me with hope for 2021. So do these awesome articles:

This one made me cry. The video is too echo-y. Scroll down and read the essay.
Writer’s playlist.
When we can travel again, maybe we can go to Mexico.
This article from 2018 may help you set your creative goals for 2021.
12-year-old Jesus didn’t have all the answers.
Interesting shots.
Everything I know about physicist Richard Feynman I learned from watching The Big Bang Theory. I didn’t know he liked to draw.
Good advice. And some not as good. And some I don’t understand.
These signs made me laugh.
There are reasons why you shouldn’t drive drunk, and there are reasons why you shouldn’t sing drunk. But they’re not the same reasons. Apparently, singing drunk is great fun, and nobody dies. Read about the Australian Pub Choir.
A quilter shares the 17 quilts she made in 2020.
This is an interesting idea: praying with index cards.

Sep25

Creative Juice #209

Posted on September 25, 2020 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Some interesting stuff; some funny stuff; some deep stuff.

This one’s a little hard to look at. A sculptor made prosthetic masks for soldiers disfigured in World War I.
Can you stand any more Covid-19 jokes?
Many variations on the tangle Printemps.
How to machine-quilt a border with an S-curve ruler.
A prayer from 1968 that is so timely today.
Do you have books you read and reread multiple times? Me, too.
What if they had texting in Medieval times?
The truth about Meissen porcelain.
A professional watercolorist’s life.
Spiritual director Marsha Crockett’s journal provides guided meditations and contemplative helps. You can also follow her on Instagram.
One of my favorite artists painted a lovely portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and paired it with a poetic tribute.
I’ve read some of these books (and they were great) and seen rave reviews of others. Anyway, if you don’t know what to read next, maybe pick something off this list.

Apr25

NaPoWriMo Day Twenty-Five: Pandemic Prayer

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Woman praying

Pandemic Prayer
by ARHuelsenbeck

Lord, I pray for an end to this pandemic
and yet, as the words leave my heart
I wonder if it’s even good to ask for
an end to the dying
an end to the pain
an end to economic chaos
an end to inconvenience
an end to isolation

what if this is Your way
of welcoming people to eternity
with You, an exodus from pain to paradise
or of reconnecting parents with children
and workers with their neighborhoods
what if this disease is accomplishing Your purpose

I still want to hang on to the way things were
when I could go to rehearsals
or out to dinner and a movie
when I could hug my friends
or even be in the same room with them

Your will be done
please strengthen me for what’s to come

Apr7

From the Creator’s Heart # 197

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41 NIV)

Jan20

From the Creator’s Heart #186

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Oct17

OctPoWriMo/Inktober Day 17: Who Did You Create Me to Be?

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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I’m combining two challenges today, using the OctPoWriMo prompt from Day 14, if I were me. The suggested form was a shape poem, which, due to my lack of coding knowledge, is hard for me to format on WordPress, so I chose to hand-write it.

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Sep23

From the Creator’s Heart #169

Posted on September 23, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Jul1

From the Creator’s Heart #157

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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I urge then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone–for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness (1 Timothy 2:1-2 NIV).