CreativeCarol Celebrant

07/24/2025

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10/21/2024

Blessings for breakthroughs 🙌❤️‍🩹❤️

‘When life breaks you, it is because you are ready to be put back together differently.

Every piece of you that feels shattered is a piece that will find a new place, a new purpose, a new meaning.

Trust that the cracks are where the light gets in. And sometimes, in our brokenness, we find our greatest wholeness.

We find the courage to rebuild, to reimagine, to redefine what it means to be strong.

You are not broken; you are breaking through.’

Writer unknown

08/02/2024

for
I have been blessed by a multitude of friends throughout my life 🙌♥️👏

06/18/2024

mourning 🙌❤️‍🩹♥️

06/16/2024

I had the honor of teaching a class today entitled, “Navigating the Landscape of Loss and Grief” for 🙌
such an honor to journey with 17 amazing people exploring how they will be a blessing to the world ! 🙌 One of the breakout sessions was where they discussed the various stages of grieving and rituals that might be appropriate as a spiritual care provider. While they were in their breakout session, I created this Mandala with a piece to represent each of the students… And used the crying unicorn I had lit at the beginning of the class with its waxed tears that remain. What I love about creating or a is that it exemplifies the impermanence in our life. I will keep this mandala in place for a while, but then I will take the pieces away and they will await the next creation.

05/14/2024

Two sacred guests arrived this morning to witness a graveside service I officiated for a baby that was born sleeping. 🙌🦌
In an attempt to share words of comfort, I shared
A Japanese metaphor for the process of healing ❤️‍🩹 and finding beauty in the brokenness 💔
is an unending process and informs the continued beating of our hearts.
These two deer provided some peace in the midst of immense pain. And they stayed for the whole service. ❤️

04/10/2024

What a to view the in !!! 🙌♥️ here’s to cycles of life!

03/02/2024

Grateful for the opportunity to be on a panel tonight after a viewing of this film. Please take time to view if you have interest. I was honored to be in community on the panel with an outstanding collection of Spiritual Care Providers at Lighthouse Mosque in Oakland, Calfifornia. Some of the questions we were asked were:

1. How do chaplains' various identities (spiritual, racial/ethnic, gender, etc.) impact their work and experience as chaplains? (Particularly when one or more of these identities is marginalized within the work setting or larger society)

2. What does it look like to support the spiritual development of people in institutional settings?

3. What does it mean to be grounded in one's own faith tradition, no matter what it is, to be able to amply serve others (of the same or different faith traditions, or no identified faith tradition)?

Three Chaplains is a film about military chaplains who combat Islamophobia while promoting interfaith understanding. Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military support and defend the religious rights of all service members. But their leadership sparks accusations of disloyalty and even disapproval from w...

12/27/2023

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10/24/2023

Prayer of Mothers for Life and Peace... ❤️‍🩹 May it be so...

A prayer in Hebrew and Arabic (with translations in English and German) of solidarity of mothers for there to be peace in the world for the sake of their children. . . .

09/17/2023

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“Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful.”
― L.R. Knost

08/14/2023

Thank you to my dear friend, Guri, for sharing this! Beautiful as I wait in line to get my badge for 🙌