Entering Rest – June 5, 2020
This day is already past. I surrender it.When I think about tomorrow, I surrender it too.Keep me this night. With YouAnd in You I can trust not knowing anything.I can trust incompleteness as a way.Dark with the darkness, silent with the silence,Hep me dare to be that empty one—futureless,desireless—who breathes Your name even in sleep. […]
Cooking – June 4, 2020
I know as I create this mealthere is another cooking going on.It, too, is all motion, all process—an inner transformation.Help me to give myself awayas easily as this carrot, this new potato.I want my layers to peel away like the onion’s.I want to be as empty and cleanas the universe in a sweet green pepperwith […]
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 […]
