Our Real Work – July 13, 2020
It may be that when we no longer know what to do,we have come to our real workand when we no longer know which way to go,we have begun our real journey.The mind that is not baffled is not employed.The impeded stream is the one that sings. –Wendell Berry, “Our Real Work”
Waiting Is a Window – July 10, 2020
“Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes… It is the experience of recovering balance when catapulted from one’s place. It is the quiet forming of a pattern of recollection in which there is called into focus the fragmentary values from myriad encounters of many kinds in a lifetime of living. It is to watch […]
Prayer for Today – July 9, 2020
“With fumbling words, we give ourselves to prayer: We want to be rid of that which comes between us and Thy vision. Teach us how. We are but little children stumbling in the darkness. Do not reject even our weakness, O God, but accept us totally as we are. Work over us, knead us and […]
Something More – July 8, 2020
“How wonderful it is, beyond all power fully to understand, that our lives are never left to themselves alone. It does not matter where we are, nor what tasks consume our energies; there is always present something more than we ourselves are at any given moment. Always we are visited.” –Howard Thurman, The Inward Journey, […]