Where is this????? Can you guess????

Where was this image taken?????  Can you guess????  I am curious to see where my readers are from and how fast this location is recognized and defined.  I hope to tie this discussion to my Google+ Community, with the same name, ArtandSpirit....and see if I can copy and paste some images from my readers/group members, in a discussion area named "Where is it?"   If that doesn't work then we will just have this discussion going on there in the google+ community.

Here is the Google + Community link:   https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105635183192792397527?cfem=1  

Post your guesses......Where is it?????

                              Beautiful Kootenai Lake and the Rockies at sunset

                                at Ainsworth Resort, British Columbia Canada

I love the Rocky Mountains....I am in awe of them. They are massive and eternal.  They have always been here, and I am just a speck of time in their existence. Although this image was taken at sunset, my really favorite time of day is the morning when the day is brand new and the air is fresh. There is a quiet that prevades that helps me to an inner quiet where I can encounter the Holy Spirit. It is my favorite time to photograph and pray.   

This is one of my newest images added to my website SEImagesonline  

 http://3-sharon-elliott.artistwebsites.com/       I love this quote from St. Peter Julian Eymard, below is more information about this man.  I am part of a group that holds Perpetual Adoration at my Parish.....I love it. This man was instrumental in promoting this practice.

The Blessed Sacrament Congregation was founded by St Peter Julian Eymard (1811–1868) as a new religious community dedicated to the ‘blessed sacrament’ or eucharist.

Eymard (pronounced ‘Ay-mard’) was a French priest who had ministered in the diocese of Grenoble before joining the Society of Mary (Marist Fathers) in 1839. By 1844 he was provincial in charge of Marist communities in France and overseas.

Throughout his life, Eymard had a strong attraction to the eucharist. As a priest, he opposed the backward thinking of his day which suggested that communion was a reward for the virtuous, not to be received often or by anyone ‘unworthy’.

‘You take communion to become holy, not because you already are,’ he preached.

Eymard became familiar with the practice of sustained eucharistic worship during a visit to Paris in 1849, when he met with members of the Association of Nocturnal Adorers who had established exposition and perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at the Basilica of Our Lady of Victories.

After praying at the Basilica of Fourvière on 21 January 1851, Eymard moved to establish a Marist community dedicated to eucharistic adoration. His superiors disapproved, transferring him to the Marist College at La Seyne-sur-Mer. Eventually, Eymard resolved to leave the Society of Mary to begin his new religious congregation with the diocesan priest Raymond de Cuers.

On 13 May 1856, the Paris bishops consented to Eymard’s plans for a ‘Society of the Blessed Sacrament’. After many trials, Eymard and de Cuers established public exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in Paris on 6 January 1857 in a run-down building at 114 rue d’Enfer (which literally meant ‘street of hell’).

When Pope Pius XI granted a Decree of Approbation in 1863, the Congregation had twenty-eight members, among them the famous sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). Their mission was not confined to exposition and perpetual adoration. It included a ministry to priests, and to the poor and working classes, and particularly to the destitute children or ‘ragpickers’ who were living in the ghettoes of Paris.

Eymard also established an association of lay people called the Aggregation of the Blessed Sacrament, and he collaborated with Marguerite Guillot to found a eucharistic congregation for women now known as the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament.

In declining health, Eymard lived to see his own Congregation begin its expansion outside France in the mid 1860s. His mystical life deepened during his final years, as he came to recognise what he called the ‘gift of self’ which involved an act of total self-surrender based on the model of Christ.

Peter Julian Eymard was canonised a saint on 9 December 1962 and is known today as the ‘apostle of the eucharist’. His feast day is celebrated each year on 2 August.

From: blessedsacrament.com     Blessed Sacrament Congregation   Province of the Holy Spirit

Encountering Christ:

We all have our moments when the love of Christ is felt and brought to the surface of our conscious through an encounter with another person, or an event in our day or life.  That overwhelming feeling of love, comfort, and assurance that all is well in your spirit.

This happens so often when doing God’s work through our ministries, in our work, and family life.  It requires a silence and awareness of God’s presence and activity.   

I hope that you will share some of your profound experiences of Encounters with Christ in discussion.

Some of my profound times of encounter are when I am doing one of my ministries.   I take Eucharist to Catholics in one of the hospitals in my home town. I always sit in the Chapel before I start to visit patients and pray that Our Lord will empty me of myself, so that He can work…so that His children hear what He wants to say to them…not what I think. Sometimes I still manage to get in the way, and don’t do His will due to a varied weakness of my own. Usually it is because I don’t want to disturb someone.

On the 4^th floor of this hospital (my favorite floor) there is a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It sets on a pedestal, just the right height that I can look up ever so slightly into Jesus piercing eyes, so full of love.  I feel that He is truly alive in that gaze, and that those eyes could blink any second. There is so much love there, that I can’t image anyone not being able to feel it if they stop and become silent.  On one particular day when I came out of the stairwell there was a woman there on her cell phone talking and I didn’t want to disturb her so I went on feeling that I missed my brief moment with Jesus, but thought, I will come back when I complete my visits on this floor.  When I came back, she was still there and was upset, making me feel that I didn’t want to disturb her again, so I went into the stairwell and was proceeding to the next floor when  I was stopped in my tracks.  The Holy Spirit said to me “Go back and speak to that woman”. When I turned to go back, not knowing what I was to say, I saw her leaving through the window in the door. I went and stood in front of the statue feeling that I had just let Jesus down.  He wanted her stop and be with Him for a moment, and my only duty was to suggest this to her.  On another occasion I didn’t go into a room where I felt a family needed privacy, and when I got to the 4^th floor and stood before Jesus, He said “I want you to go back to that room….take me there”. I did as I was asked not wanting to repeat my previous blunder, and it turned out to be one of those very profound encounters with Christ. The entire family was there by that time, and very much welcomed me to their prayer time. They all had Holy Communion. I had taken Jesus to them just as He had asked....they wanted that very much. 

This blog is about and for artists. It is also about and for our Spirits.  I include the Spiritual dimension, because my faith is the center of my life, and I know it is at the center of many other’s lives.

I encourage artists to come here for discussions related to the art industry, whether it is your hobby, or your livelihood. I also encourage your Spirituality to shine here, and hope this will become a place where you can be enriched.

This blog will be a place (I hope) to nourish your soul, a place to share your feelings and opinions of your journey with Christ, whether it be through your art or in discussion topics and/or articles. 

I created this blog a few years ago, and have not posted for awhile as I was working to grow my Mary Kay Business......that is going well....however, I miss my art and want to get back in the groove. I want to share faith with all of you out there. I will be posting art work from my website through Fine Art America/Pixels.....my website is: seimagesonline. I hope to be able to post images from artist friends that I meet through Fine Art America and here on this blog.