How Call Begins
When did you first “leave home?” What prompted that choice? Was it work? Love? Adventure? Rebellion? Or maybe all of those together? Might that choice be the root of your call? At a recent retreat, we were working with the idea of life as a journey toward the heart’s true home–which is how I understand […]
Song of Revolution
Advent is a time of waiting in some new way for Christmas. It’s difficult because so many traditions promote old ways. Some of them literally come out of storage boxes: the family nativity scene, tree ornaments and Grandmother’s recipes. It can be difficult to live into this season of possibility. Yet, I want to. I […]
Putting Out the Trash
“You brood of vipers!” These harsh words met those who had made the rough trip across hot desert sands to see the wild desert prophet, in his rough animal skins. John’s vehement condemnation was as shocking to their systems as an immersion in the frigid Jordan River would be. It is shocking for us, reading […]
Wilderness Work
Last Sunday, the Dayspring community blessed the opening of Earthen Hands, a pottery studio near the old farmhouse. It used to be a lawnmower shed, with the usual accumulation of machines, broken tools and extra parts. Now it’s clean, with two new windows and neat working spaces around Bud Wilkinson’s old kick-wheel – a gift […]