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Yesterday at Mass – August 9th, 2015 | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. Yesterday at Mass – August 9th, 2015. August 10, 2015. I went to mass harried. Worried. Lightly annoyed with myself for not being better prepared for the day. Typical state of being that I remember from when I used to go to church. A frenzy to get there on time, rushing to the front door, and then the slow walk down the aisle, features composed into neutral yet spiritual expression that says –. Were they late for the sa...
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My Addiction. | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. The Struggle of Sincerity →. July 20, 2015. A new day brightensHeightens. Bringing almost just enough. To see it just once. It can’t be enough. Holding firm to every thought. Leaning deep into motion. But won’t spill. Correction it could take. Away and far between. The need and the want. Necessity and that which is desire. A burning in mind. Eyes roll, sweats break. No thought to what’s at stake. And then I pause. It...
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Stephen Rusinko | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. Author Archives: Stephen Rusinko. June 6, 2016. Under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license. And it’s not just in politics, much in life is geared toward increasing one’s influence in this world. For instance, I’m sure I could read a ton of stuff on the internet about how to increase this blog’s readership or leverage social media to blah blah blah gobbledygook. Lastly, of course, this runs rampant in religion as well. ...
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Introduction – Long version | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. Introduction – Short Version. Defining Religion →. Introduction – Long version. August 3, 2015. 8220;The biggest paradox about the Church is that she is at the same time essentially traditional and essentially revolutionary. But that is not as much of a paradox as it seems, because Christian tradition, unlike all others is a living and perpetual revolution.” – Thomas Merton New Seeds of Contemplation. Dark – yes&#...
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jessamynanderson | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. Yesterday at Mass – August 9th, 2015. August 10, 2015. I went to mass harried. Worried. Lightly annoyed with myself for not being better prepared for the day. Typical state of being that I remember from when I used to go to church. A frenzy to get there on time, rushing to the front door, and then the slow walk down the aisle, features composed into neutral yet spiritual expression that says –. Were they late for the sa...
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Then. Now. And Later. | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. Becoming a Butterfly, or Entering Through the Narrow Gate →. Then Now. And Later. June 30, 2015. It was near dusk as she stood there motionless. Blinking only several times a minute. When she could, she’d hold her breath. Hold it in, wait until it burned, and exhale through the cloud of dust and muddied tears formed in the small corners of her eyes. She looked out, silent, waiting for some return. There was movement in ...
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Storm | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. To See or Be Seen? My Addiction. →. July 17, 2015. Shared by Eje Gustafsson. Under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license. It was dark and stormy out, rain pelting our windows with a tat-tat-tat like the patter of a tommy-gun and the wind whistling like the 4:05 train pulling into Wichita. Something big was coming, like a goon with a crowbar in a dark alley. My soul was unsettled. Nothing new about that. What all of us need.
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Defining Religion | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. Introduction – Long version. Yesterday at Mass – August 9th, 2015 →. August 5, 2015. Under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license. And frankly, it kind of sucks. We never really discuss what all these words mean to each of us and how that impacts the way we use them. It’s difficult enough in a one-on-one conversation. When you begin to address larger groups it becomes exponentially more complicated as each person enters ...
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Remember | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. Yesterday at Mass – August 9th, 2015. Back to Basics →. August 11, 2015. Under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license. We are out there on the beach, you and I. The sky is gray, as it always was and always shall be. A pale sun hangs above the horizon. I wait for it to rise, but it never does. I stand there, clothed, aware of the cold air but not feeling it. Or because you are dead. Always talking about her two boys in college.
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To See or Be Seen? | Painting with Many Brushes
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Painting with Many Brushes. A few brushstrokes contributing to a greater masterpiece. Becoming a Butterfly, or Entering Through the Narrow Gate. To See or Be Seen? July 13, 2015. Shared by mind scratch. Under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license. Inside many of us, although not spoken of often, I believe there is a shared desire to be seen . We want to be visible, to be noticed, to not fade away into the oblivion of anonymity. This, I think, is rather dangerous. The striving to be seen keeps us from see...
