Perchance I live as conscious soul
When body comes to die,
Perchance as flame of comet flash
Across the tropic sky:

Alike my lot, the surge of Change
And God will live in me
For He is all, or nothing at all —
All God, if God there be.[1]

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[1]George Albert Nicholson, The Village Church and Toward God (NY: Exposition Press, 1951

COMING JULY 18th

All God, If God There Be:

A Journey through Incest into Incarnate Light

Linda Carleton’s poignant memoir of hope and healing from childhood trauma through finding a joyful integration of diverse spiritual paths with her progressive Christian faith.

Now Available on Amazon

“What feels rich and new in Linda's memoir is the depth to which she takes us into her exploration; down deep inside the young girl and then the grown woman who, despite all the cultural and religious forces that push her to turn away and get on with her good life, she does not abandon herself mid-journey.

And she takes us, her reader, with her. Tender, intelligent without being intellectual, sensitive but not maudlin, Linda's story will be a gift to anyone who reads it looking for answers to the questions of what makes our injured lives livable once we're the ones living it.”

— Dulcie Witman, LADC, MFA, Wide Open Writing

 Meet Linda

Linda Carleton dares to hope that her writing and mandalas might become such a source of magic for you, her readers. A former teacher of history and comparative religions and retired U.C.C. minister working in refugee resettlement, she now teaches, writes and offers mandala journaling workshops in Portland, Maine. Her spiritual memoir, All God, If God There Be, will be released in the summer of 2023.

In Ancient Egyptian mythology, the heron-like ibis was said to have emerged from the dark void of the Nu and created the world with its egg. The ibis is seen as the earthly manifestation of Thoth, the god of writing, wisdom and magic.

This is a watercolor from Linda’s Genesis series. It’s called “Be Fruitful and Multiply.” It depicts a similar story in Taoism of the breakup of the Tao into the “ten thousand things” of the material world.

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