Comments on: Echoes Of Origin Spirituality: Mayda del Valle at The White House http://www.danwilt.com/echoes-of-origin-spirituality-mayda-del-valle-at-the-white-house/ spiritual storytelling, keeping faith Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:27:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stephen http://www.danwilt.com/echoes-of-origin-spirituality-mayda-del-valle-at-the-white-house/#comment-849844 Stephen Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:32:56 +0000 http://www.danwilt.com/?p=1668#comment-849844 This is deeply moving. I love how her words come together almost like a melody. Even more than that though I love how she taps into that deep rooted longing in all of us to be connected to our creator and how she searches for meaning to her existence by looking at the life of one who went before her. She is so brutally honest and open in her desire for something more that I find it almost uncomfortable to watch...like I'm seeing something too private. Yet I can't look away either because her words resonate. I know what she is feeling. I have felt that way too and I think all humanity does as well. I pray that more artists have the guts to explore these feelings and express them openly too. What a unique and beautiful way to start exploring the questions of our existence, life, meaning, and faith. Thanks Dan, Stephen Rathjen Essentials Red This is deeply moving. I love how her words come together almost like a melody. Even more than that though I love how she taps into that deep rooted longing in all of us to be connected to our creator and how she searches for meaning to her existence by looking at the life of one who went before her.

She is so brutally honest and open in her desire for something more that I find it almost uncomfortable to watch…like I’m seeing something too private. Yet I can’t look away either because her words resonate. I know what she is feeling. I have felt that way too and I think all humanity does as well.

I pray that more artists have the guts to explore these feelings and express them openly too. What a unique and beautiful way to start exploring the questions of our existence, life, meaning, and faith.

Thanks Dan,
Stephen Rathjen
Essentials Red

]]> By: dawn http://www.danwilt.com/echoes-of-origin-spirituality-mayda-del-valle-at-the-white-house/#comment-848303 dawn Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:36:43 +0000 http://www.danwilt.com/?p=1668#comment-848303 This is really really good. So full of passion and there is a longing and a question for connection to something bigger that is outside of herself; this is the mark of the Creator. And this piece really is a desire to make sense of the universe, to make sense of history, to give meaning and voice to those who have gone before. What I like so much is there is still a question, there is still mystery. I get it, I feel like that as well. I know and understand much about my history and I know and understand much about my God but there is so very much I am perplexed by. So very much I don't get . There is sometimes a reaching out, a desperate clinging or clutching and searching for God because He is all I have and because He is what I know (having proved himself faithful). The mystery is He still meets me. Thanks so much for posting this. This is really really good. So full of passion and there is a longing and a question for connection to something bigger that is outside of herself; this is the mark of the Creator. And this piece really is a desire to make sense of the universe, to make sense of history, to give meaning and voice to those who have gone before. What I like so much is there is still a question, there is still mystery. I get it, I feel like that as well. I know and understand much about my history and I know and understand much about my God but there is so very much I am perplexed by. So very much I don’t get . There is sometimes a reaching out, a desperate clinging or clutching and searching for God because He is all I have and because He is what I know (having proved himself faithful). The mystery is He still meets me. Thanks so much for posting this.

]]> By: Cheryl Jane Dempsey http://www.danwilt.com/echoes-of-origin-spirituality-mayda-del-valle-at-the-white-house/#comment-845982 Cheryl Jane Dempsey Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:44:51 +0000 http://www.danwilt.com/?p=1668#comment-845982 Dan... thanks so much for posting this link.. I watched, and was truly moved by this woman's passion.. She got me thinking about my grandmother., and I found myself asking the same questions... How delightful to consider and to ponder one's roots, and to feel, once again, reminded of one's connections to everything that comes from GOD.I, personally, am grateful for my rootedness in GOD, JESUS, , and yes... my Grandmother.. I know she prayed and I would like to think that she prayed well.. simply, humbly, and quietly... We, as human beings, are truly designed beautifully. Thanks be to GOD.. the LOVE of my life.. Dan… thanks so much for posting this link.. I watched, and was truly moved by this woman’s passion.. She got me thinking about my grandmother., and I found myself asking the same questions… How delightful to consider and to ponder one’s roots, and to feel, once again, reminded of one’s connections to everything that comes from GOD.I, personally, am grateful for my rootedness in GOD, JESUS, , and yes… my Grandmother.. I know she prayed and I would like to think that she prayed well.. simply, humbly, and quietly… We, as human beings, are truly designed beautifully. Thanks be to GOD.. the LOVE of my life..

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