Using Our Gifts – May 24, 2023
“Every person has the task of releasing angels by shaping and transfiguring the raw materials that lie about [them] so that they become houses and machinery and pictures and bridges. How we do this—how we “build the earth,” to use Teilhard de Chardin’s phrase—is determined by the discovery and use of our gifts.” —Elizabeth O’Connor, Eighth […]
Send Me Tough Angels – Mar. 6, 2023
“I am not asking youto take this wilderness from me,to remove this place of starknesswhere I come to knowthe wildness within me… But send metough angels,sweet wine,strong bread:just enough.” –Jan Richardson, excerpt from “Desert Prayer“, In Wisdom’s Path: Discovering the Sacred in Every Season (The Pilgrim Press, 2000), p. 54
Life Is Cyclical – Jan. 19, 2023
“I think what it means to be human is to live a life that’s deeply cyclical. There isn’t one path, a straight path, and certainly not an uphill path that works its way to a summit where the angels sing… My understanding now, as I get older, of being human, is that my life is […]
The Angel’s Call
I’m writing on the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. A wise time to go within… to listen for the crisp call of angels. As the light fades to gray, a bright red bird perches in a dark, barren tree. Now, all things are more easily seen. The air leans hard against us, heavy and […]
