My Ten Days in Nepal are Coming Soon!

10 Days Coming Soon!

Yes my ten days in Nepal are coming soon. And there are many questions upon my heart.  How will it be to be in Nepal now? My experiences, will they be like before and after photos etched upon my heart, of an earthquake that happened in between?  I do not know.  I will share upon my return. 

I find myself full of gratitude to God for the timing of this trip.  My friends in Nepal have been working so hard to support one another and the people in their country severely impacted by earthquakes.  To go and provide five days in Expressive Arts therapy training, will also provide caregivers opportunity to receive care. Expressive Art and Community art practice provide human beings an opportunity to decenter from present life’s dilemmas and struggles and focus on our common human ability for bringing forth artistry.  For a little while in this practice we can set aside the difficult things that confront us in everyday life and engage in art making that captivates our senses, engages our imaginations and revives and enlivens in us an experience of satisfaction, strength, beauty and even hope.  What is gained in the art making is often reminders of personal strengths, new found abilities, increased capacity for resilience, and willingness to trust oneself to navigate what emerges in life with sensitivity, grace, courage and self mastery.   

When people experience trauma, the body stores the experience.  Memories are made in muscles, in minds, in emotions, and bio-chemical processes. Engaging in art making has the potential to transform our understandings, imprints and impacts of traumatic events and unleash the places in ones body that become subject to the powerful presence of traumatic memory.  It is my hope and prayer that in accompanying Nepali care givers, humanitarian workers and community workers, their healing will come where it is needed, capacity for resiliency strengthened, transforming beauty will be experienced and ever greater Hope will emerge. 

Living Artistry is what human community has potential to be! We are capable of meeting our everyday with a sensitivity that allows all that is Holy and Sacred and LIFE GIVING to emerge in and through us.  We are formed THIS beautifully, fearfully, wonderfully! In communion with one another, in communion with God, Beauty emerges, beautifully.

Please, will you join with me in supporting not just recovery in Nepal, but even more so the imagining of the future in the people and land of Nepal.

Please donate today!

www.gofundme.com/hoperisingamidstne

You may also send your tax deductible support to: 
Sunset Covenant Church with NEPAL written in the memo.
And Addressed to:
Sunset Covenant Church
18555 NW Rock Creek Blvd, Portland, OR 97229