Spring Snow Publications

Writing with Insight and Inspiration

  • Spring Snow Publications
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Healer

That Skill A thorn has entered your foot. That is why you weep at times at night.   There are some in this world who can pull it out.   The skill that takes they have learned from Him. –St. Catherine of Siena (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Spiritual Journey, Transforming Wounds into Words, Writing Tagged: bear suffering, essential wound, Love Poems from God, poetry, St. Catherine of Siena, writing

July 19, 2012

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Drinking Light

Like Roots Our hands imbibe like roots, so I place them on what is beautiful in this world.   And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light. –St. Francis of Assisi (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.40) St. Francis […]

Filed Under: Faith, Poetry Tagged: faith, Love Poems from God, Matthew 5:14, poetry, St. Francis

April 5, 2012

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

The Spirit’s Hands

They can be a great help—words. They can become the spirit’s hands and lift and caress you. –Meister Eckhart (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.110) “Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) is one of history’s great mystics . . . . He was a Catholic monk and […]

Filed Under: Poetry, Writing Tagged: Love Poems from God, Meister Eckhart, poetry, spirit's hands, writing

February 23, 2012

Written by Dr. Terry Chitwood

Follow Your Calling

if I do not fulfill my heart’s vocation, I suffer. –St. Thomas Aquinas (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.144) Love and More This quote is the third stanza of the poem Otherwise the Darkness by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). His soul’s purpose, stated in […]

Filed Under: Faith, Poetry, Writing Tagged: calling, Follow your calling, Janet O. Dallett, Listening to the Rhino, Love Poems from God, St. Thomas Aquinas, vocation

December 15, 2011
  • 1
  • 2
  • Next Page »

connect with us

Follow Me on Facebook Follow Me on Twitter Follow Me on Google+ Follow Me on Pinterest Subscribe in a Reader

popular

  • 10 Fun Ways to Focus on Grammar
  • The Sayings of Grey Whiskers, Cat Zen Master
  • Psalms and Creative Writing: God as Healer
  • Taoist Pearls, Wisdom for Writers: Sandpaper Wind
  • Tao Te Ching for Writers: Soften the Sun
  • Tao Te Ching for Writers: Out of the Night
  • Tao Te Ching for Writers: Peace Flows In
  • Be Grateful for Your Imperfections
  • Tao Te Ching for Writers: Words into Dust
  • Tao Te Ching for Writers: Doorway between Worlds

Categories

Handcrafted with on the Genesis Framework