Sacred Ground – Oct. 4, 2021
“Any place is sacred ground, because it is, potentially, a place of confrontation — confrontation with the divine Presence. As soon as we take off the shoes of “being used to it” and come alive, we realize: ‘If not here, where? When, if not now?’” –David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart: The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness […]
Redeeming the World – Oct. 1, 2021
“The power of repentance is that it brings redemption to the world. Each time we repent, we push the world a little closer toward goodness, and a little farther from evil. And in that sense, every act [of repentance] has cosmic significance.” –Louis Newman, On Being interview with Krista Tippett
Run Toward Our Transgressions – Sep. 30, 2021
“However small or large, our immediate instinct is to run away from our transgression. Or to hide it. Or to lie about what we did so that nobody will find out about it. And in doing that, we’re in bondage to the thing that we’ve done. We let it dictate our next move, and the […]
Who We Really Are – Sep. 29, 2021
“Repentance really is about coming to terms with who we really are. That’s true in a couple of senses: both in terms of claiming our own mistakes, not running from them, not hiding them, but actually claiming them – knowing that they’re true and owning them; and also owning the fact that deep down, our […]