Comments on: Feast of the Epiphany: Blessing the House http://paintedprayerbook.com/2009/12/31/epiphany-blessing-the-house/ Artist and writer Jan Richardson explores the intersections of word & image & faith. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:35:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jan Richardson http://paintedprayerbook.com/2009/12/31/epiphany-blessing-the-house/#comment-1731 Jan Richardson Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:24:02 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1173#comment-1731 Thank you, Marisa! Much gratitude to you for your visit and your words. Wow, what a wonder to be entering a new year and celebrating Epiphany with a 10-week-old child. I wish you many, many blessings as you continue to make your home together. Love the name of your blog! Thank you for the thoughtfulness you bring to it. Thank you, Marisa! Much gratitude to you for your visit and your words. Wow, what a wonder to be entering a new year and celebrating Epiphany with a 10-week-old child. I wish you many, many blessings as you continue to make your home together.

Love the name of your blog! Thank you for the thoughtfulness you bring to it.

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]]> By: Jan Richardson http://paintedprayerbook.com/2009/12/31/epiphany-blessing-the-house/#comment-1729 Jan Richardson Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:17:11 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1173#comment-1729 Tess, it's lovely to hear from you---many kind thanks. Your blog post about hospitality is wonderful (and your blog itself is such a rich gift). Thanks so much for linking to The Painted Prayerbook and for your support. I hope you've had a wondrous Epiphany and that your year will be blessed with hospitality given and received. Peace and gratitude to you. Tess, it’s lovely to hear from you—many kind thanks. Your blog post about hospitality is wonderful (and your blog itself is such a rich gift). Thanks so much for linking to The Painted Prayerbook and for your support. I hope you’ve had a wondrous Epiphany and that your year will be blessed with hospitality given and received. Peace and gratitude to you.

]]> By: Jan Richardson http://paintedprayerbook.com/2009/12/31/epiphany-blessing-the-house/#comment-1728 Jan Richardson Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:13:48 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1173#comment-1728 Very many thanks, Thymekeeper! I'm grateful for your blessing---a lovely gift in this new year. Many blessings to you and yours. Very many thanks, Thymekeeper! I’m grateful for your blessing—a lovely gift in this new year. Many blessings to you and yours.

]]> By: Jan Richardson http://paintedprayerbook.com/2009/12/31/epiphany-blessing-the-house/#comment-1727 Jan Richardson Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:12:46 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1173#comment-1727 Many kind thanks, Phyllis! I'm grateful for your good thoughts and prayers as we prepare to look for a home that will hold and encompass us well. Many blessings upon your year, your home, and your splendid self! Many kind thanks, Phyllis! I’m grateful for your good thoughts and prayers as we prepare to look for a home that will hold and encompass us well. Many blessings upon your year, your home, and your splendid self!

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]]> By: Jan Richardson http://paintedprayerbook.com/2009/12/31/epiphany-blessing-the-house/#comment-1724 Jan Richardson Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:07:14 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1173#comment-1724 Thank you, Carolyn! Your thoughtfulness is always a gift. May this new year be a good and blessed home for you---a happy new-year-house indeed. Thank you, Carolyn! Your thoughtfulness is always a gift. May this new year be a good and blessed home for you—a happy new-year-house indeed.

]]> By: Jan Richardson http://paintedprayerbook.com/2009/12/31/epiphany-blessing-the-house/#comment-1723 Jan Richardson Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:53:03 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1173#comment-1723 Thanks so much, Janet! I'm grateful for your words and appreciate your good wishes for our house hunting---should be quite the adventure. How lovely that you have a space that offers you a sense of "at-homeness"---that's a wondrous thing. Many blessings to you. Thanks so much, Janet! I’m grateful for your words and appreciate your good wishes for our house hunting—should be quite the adventure. How lovely that you have a space that offers you a sense of “at-homeness”—that’s a wondrous thing. Many blessings to you.

]]> By: Jan Richardson http://paintedprayerbook.com/2009/12/31/epiphany-blessing-the-house/#comment-1720 Jan Richardson Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:32:08 +0000 http://paintedprayerbook.com/?p=1173#comment-1720 Many thanks, Johnnie. Yes, I'd be delighted for you to use this in your parish as you've indicated---that would be lovely. If you'd be game to include a link to this blog, that would be great. Thank you for your words, and a blessed Epiphany to you and your parish! Many thanks, Johnnie. Yes, I’d be delighted for you to use this in your parish as you’ve indicated—that would be lovely. If you’d be game to include a link to this blog, that would be great. Thank you for your words, and a blessed Epiphany to you and your parish!

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