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Sunday, October 6, 2024

Christi Ortiz

Christi Ortiz is a licensed marriage and family therapist by profession and a poet by passion.  She enjoys trying to put to words to that which is wordless and give voice to the dynamic and wild spiritual journey called life. She lives in Spokane with her husband and two children, Emmanuel and Grace. She loves the outdoors and meditating in the early mornings which gives rise to her poetry.

Encountering the unknown

I sit in meditation “I don’t know” my mantra Openness my only companion On this vast, limitless encounter

If I were a mystic

If I were a mystic I am sure that I would be a painter, a musician, a dancer and a poet

The Burning Bush: Consumed, yet not destroyed

I wonder what caught Moses’ attention in the burning bush? Surely he had seen many fires in the desert while out tending his flock.

The prison

A man told me a story “I once held a prisoner

According to plan

I take comfort in reading the nativity narrative in seeing that even for the Holy Family nothing went according to plan

The First Advent

So often we speak of the Incarnation and the Incarnate Word, but I wonder about Incarnating.

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"We are called to be sentinels of hope Seers of the unseen Doers of the word.." - Christi Ortiz We are called to be sentinels of hope

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