Reading the Paper – June 3, 2020
I am not separate from the deaths, the demands,and the dealings, the disasters, the deceits,the demagogues, and the diplomacy. This is our incompleteness, our separation,our greed at work. Let me own my part.The world’s hunger is mine.The world’s helplessness is mine.The world’s failure to love is mine.Sober me to this connection in my life.Let the […]
Walking – June 2, 2020
The floor in this house is wood… wide, old boards.When I walk I am walking on the wood and in the woods.I am walking on the life of these trees.They have been cut and planed… offered upfor this sheltering. Let me remember to offer myselfto be shelter for something in Your world. –Gunilla Norris, Being […]
Being Home – June 1, 2020
“How then do we “come home” spiritually and dwell there? … I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, that humdrum rhythm, which heals and steadies. Increasingly it is for me a matter of being willing “to be in place,” to enter into […]
Show Me Your Glory – May 29, 2020
“We know what it is like to feel hollow and torn in those times when it seems like God is walking away from us, the aching distance increasing with every step. It is in that same inexplicable moment that God reveals God’s own self to us, dissolving the distance, becoming bound to us all over […]