Creative Meditation

Peace Be With You

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti

May Beauty Surround You...

Lately i have been drawn to making prayer beads...
(this rosary is SOLD)

For me, this has always been a form of sacred art, and a prayerful and meditative process

And with all the turmoil in the World these last few weeks and months,

i have found peace in the simple repetitive act of bending the wire around the beads and medals that go into making each one

Ever since i was a young girl, i have had a fascination with all kinds of prayer beads

They are simple little tools to help keep you focused on your prayers and meditations
focused on the positive and not the negative
and when you feel hopeless, they remind you that you can always make a difference thru prayer and positive thought and action

and with each use, the prayerful energy builds up in the beads, and makes it a personal sacred tool in itself

These are just a few of the rosaries (and malas) i have available in my Etsy shop

And my pocket rosaries are on sale now...Just in time for Easter

A handful of light

This is my new rosary i just entered in my Etsy shop. It has been a while since i have made any new rosaries and this one just seemed to flow out on it's own...

It is made of fine quality cut glass beads that reflect the light like a prism

and the Our Father beads are natural tumbled fluorite in soft shades of light green, blue, violet and purple.

It's a full sized light weight traditional rosary

and it's sitting in my sunny window, absorbing all this nice (rare) sunlight. It feels good to be making rosaries again....

Earth, Water, Sky...

I've added two new malas to my Etsy shop this week.
I made these malas while sitting in the presence of Amma (The Hugging Saint) during Devi Bhava in 2008. Devi Bhava is a celebration in honor of the Divine Mother, in all Her forms...

This mala is made of sodalite...


and this one is made of clear quartz crystal, and rudruksha beads...

I held onto them because they were blessed by Amma, but finally decided they would do more good out there somewhere, being used for prayer and meditation...

I have always had a fascination with prayer beads and their use thru out history. Making these prayer beads for me is a form of prayer in itself...

Prayers are welcome....

My son in law, and Seth and Lola's daddy, Jeremie, is in the local hospital, and has been for over a week now. He has had a lifelong battle with asthma, and has been in and out of hospitals all his life with this problem. Two weeks ago he caught a cold or flu that was going thru the family, and last Sunday my daughter brought him to the ER with shortness of breath. He has developed a very strong bacterial pneumonia that has so far been very resistant to antibiotics. He is now in ICU, on a respirator, in a medically induced deep sleep.... Jeremie is a very private person so i have resisted posting about this. But as we enter into the second week in ICU with no improvements so far, i am hopeful that extra prayers and positive thoughts might just help him out. I am a lifelong believer in the Power of Prayer and Love, and i thank you all in advance for sending a little Love and Light our way....