Being Saints – Feb. 15, 2022
“Alan Jones describes saints as those who “have been allowed to see into themselves and have not refused to look.” This reminds me of David Whyte’s provocative question in one of his poems: “Why are we the one terrible part of creation privileged to refuse our own flowering?” The path of brokenness is lined with […]
Soul Friends – Feb. 14, 2022
“Soul friends play an essential role in helping us to welcome in the inner stranger. Often meeting these parts of ourselves that have been abandoned again and again brings on tears of recognition and homecoming.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening (Sorin Books, Notre Dame, 2018), p. 55-56
On the Lookout for Delight – Feb. 11, 2022
“There is a Carrie Mae Weems photograph of a woman in what looks to be some kind of textile factory, with an angel embroidered to the left breast of her shirt, where her heart resides. The woman, like the angel, has her arms splayed wide almost in ecstasy, as though to embrace everything, so in […]
Goofy, Ridiculous Things – Feb. 10, 2022
“I suspect there will be no more apparently superficial delight than this one, given as I am swirling in a volley of birdsong, given the pine tree just beyond me has a branch like an arm bent into a greeting, given the near-glowing green of these trees against the soft blue of a misty morning. […]