The Undivided Wholeness in Which I Live – Jan. 5, 2022
Loving God with Us: Open my heart and mind to feel your presence and my existence in you. Help me release fears, wants, and judgments that separate others into parts and perceptions limiting my experience of oneness with you and others. Draw me into the hidden life of Christ who is all in all, connecting […]
Courage Unparalleled – Dec. 24, 2021
She did not cry, ‘I cannot. I am not worthy,’Nor, ‘I have not the strength.’She did not submit with gritted teeth, raging, coerced.Bravest of all humans, consent illumined her.The room filled with its light,the lily glowed in it, and the iridescent wings.Consent, courage unparalleled,opened her utterly. –Denise Levertov, from her poem Annunciation
The Giver – Sep. 17, 2021
“I have a friend, a chemotherapy nurse in a children’s cancer ward, who’s job it is to pry for any available vein in an often emaciated arm to give infusions of chemicals that sometimes last as long is 12 hours and which are often quite discomforting to the child. He is probably the greatest pain […]
Time to Rise – Aug. 12, 2021
“We must work with time and patience if we want to make bread. There is no point in making it if we do not accept this. This is true of loving also. Awareness … acceptance … patience. It takes everything we have to be able to live this way. It means that we finally take […]
