Debra McMasters of Clearwater, Florida is truly a creative soul. She creates beautiful beaded jewelry to wear and sell, and she holds monthly spirituality evenings at her home where she facilitates viewing and creating art for spiritual growth and discernment. Debra is studying spiritual direction at the Shalem Center in Washington D.C. (she commutes for their distance learning program that meets throughout the year) and is especially drawn to the labyrinth as a spiritual tool. In fact, Debra has designed and facilitates canned goods labyrinths, whereby she works with a faith community to collect and lay out canned goods donations in the pattern of a labyrinth. Not only do people have a powerful sense of their collective efforts viewing all the canned goods laid out, but they are able to literally see how care for the poor and disenfranchised is integral to their own spiritual path as they walk the labyrinth. Walking the canned goods labyrinth, people are able to meditate on the reality of hunger in their communities, and what their possible response to hunger might be. Recently Debra held canned goods labyrinths at Church of the Ascension and Prince of Peace Parishes in Clearwater. Over three thousand pounds of food, and over a thousand dollars in financial donations, were collected.
Debra McMasters of Clearwater, Florida is truly a creative soul. She creates beautiful beaded jewelry to wear and sell, and she holds monthly spirituality evenings at her home where she facilitates viewing and creating art for spiritual growth and discernment. Debra is studying spiritual direction at the Shalem Center in Washington D.C. (she commutes for their distance learning program that meets throughout the year) and is especially drawn to the labyrinth as a spiritual tool. In fact, Debra has designed and facilitates canned goods labyrinths, whereby she works with a faith community to collect and lay out canned goods donations in the pattern of a labyrinth. Not only do people have a powerful sense of their collective efforts viewing all the canned goods laid out, but they are able to literally see how care for the poor and disenfranchised is integral to their own spiritual path as they walk the labyrinth. Walking the canned goods labyrinth, people are able to meditate on the reality of hunger in their communities, and what their possible response to hunger might be. Recently Debra held canned goods labyrinths at Church of the Ascension and Prince of Peace Parishes in Clearwater. Over three thousand pounds of food, and over a thousand dollars in financial donations, were collected.
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