“The soul is the delicate yet durable cloth  woven and laced together in loving pattern  by the merciful strokes of God’s Passings… and the sheen of our soul is the ever-glowing  awareness we have of this sacred-stitched fabric.”

Friends have encouraged me to begin sharing some of my writings through perhaps a more accessible media.  For this reason, this blog was created.

I have over the years learned more and more that as unique and diverse as our different journeys through life and death are, we are more connected than anything else.  My ever-growing passion is that the engaging awareness of this will continue to foster a critical mass of Lovers of Creation, Instruments and Artists of Divine and Authentic Vulnerability and Healing.  My ventures in religious studies and philosophy, combined with my love of travel and art, fills me with this “zest” for Life and Love and ultimately the wonderful journey of the Soul, of which we are all on.   I am convinced that art in all it’s diverse expressions is that which will open our minds, bodies and hearts to create, critique, heal, and transform each other and the universe.
We weave each others’ stories of love and loss and healing and laughter in the moments that we share as we encounter each other every day.  For me, these stories of encounter call forth a variety of expressions that although may fail to fully “capture” anything entirely,  hopefully can afford me and, from time to time, you to ask questions of Love and Loss within the wisdom traditions of world religions and your own human spirituality.  My endeavor here is to share, with enjoyment, entertainment, honesty, and responsibility, tempered greatly with laughter.  Many have inspired or assisted me along the way: Teilhard de Chardin, Kierkegaard, Rumi, Thomas Merton, Julian of Norwich, C.S. Lewis, Richard Rohr, Cynthia Bourgeault, The Gospels of the Christian Testament, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hebrew Prophets, T.S. Eliot, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Sufi mystical tradition…all of these and so many more continue to help me to be present to the Presence that is always available.

My hope is that this blog will allow you to ask some questions that lead you deeper, that may help you to see a “new stitch” in the fabric of your own experiences of life and reveal the bigger fabric that we all are weaving or being woven into by the Divine Seamstress… and perhaps most importantly to simply love and laugh!

Peace,

Thomas Telhiard