get your sharpie out

What would it be like to physically write the truth on your body? To carefully, with your most beautiful handwriting, write "gorgeous" on your jiggly belly? To boldly sketch the word "STRONG" on your thighs? To gently print "luscious" on your breasts?

What would it be like to silence the lies and live in the truth?

good and right and proper, that is what it would be.

"The glory of God is [hu]man fully alive" - St. Ignatius of Loyola

secrets

Beautiful, moving, haunting, inspiring, encouraging.

secrets

a reminder to communicate clearly

A new employee is hired at the Tickle Me Elmo factory and she reports for her first day promptly at 8:00 am .

The next day at 8:45 am there is a knock at the Personnel Manager's door.

The Foreman from the assembly line throws open the door and begins to rant about the new employee.

He complains that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire plant behind schedule.

The Personnel Manager decides that he should see this for himself so the two men march down to the factory floor.

When they get there the line is so backed up that there are Elmos all over the floor and they're really beginning to pile up.

At the end of the line stands the new employee.

She has a roll of red plush fabric and a big bag of marbles.

The men watch in amazement as she cuts a little piece of fabric, wraps it around two marbles and begins to sew the little package between Elmo's legs.

The Personnel Manager bursts into laughter.

After several minutes of hysterics he pulls himself together and approaches the woman.

"I'm sorry," he says to her, barely able to keep a straight face," but I think you misunderstood me yesterday.

Your job is to give each Elmo two test tickles."

the Dance

I'm going!

The Dance

Shall We Dance, a recent movie production, is a beautiful story where someone heard the heart invitation to dance. The invite was to move out the place where heart and mind were disconnected and existed in the mundane, and to move to the place where the whole body – mind, body and spirit, were connected, alive and passionately participating in life. Perhaps it is the invitation to allow the ordinary to be extraordinary by opening our arms and our heart and saying yes to letting our soul dance.

Life happens and in that “happening” pain and confusion can cause us to disconnect in various way. As creatures who are created in God’s image, we are meant to be so fully connected. Those places within that experience disconnect are being called to awaken to the desire to journey in deep connectivity.

We invite you to come and participate in The Dance Workshop where Professors Faith Auton Cuff and Celeste Snowber will lead us in some of these dance steps. They will draw us into participating in an intentional, soul based, life offering dance.


DATE: June 2 – 5, 2005
LOCATION: Linwood House, Roberts Creek
COST: $400.00

Participants should catch the 5:30PM ferry at Horseshoe Bay, to Langdale. Registration will take place from 6:30 to 7PM. The workshop will begin with a reception at 7:30PM on Thursday June 2nd. On Sunday June 5th there will be a morning session followed by brunch. We suggest you catch the 2:30 Langdale ferry to Horseshoe Bay.

The cost covers facilitators fees, the workshop, 3 nights accommodation and gourmet meals.

Should you have any questions or need a registration form please call us at 604-740.3757, or email Stephanie at Stephanie@linwoodhouseministries.org. Our website is www.linwoodhouseministries.org