Going By Another Way
I’ve heard and read the story of the Magi visiting the infant Jesus* so many times that the words slide past me without registering anything other than a slightly bored familiarity. T.S. Eliot’s poem, which once upon a time startled me with its immediacy and particularity of detail, has now become yet another expected, regular […]
Relationship to the World – May 21, 2021
“To wander far from the familiar “home” of his adolescent ways of belonging, doing, and being. He must, as poet Mary Oliver puts it, “stride deeper and deeper into the world.” His culture will greatly influence the manner in which he wanders, as will his gender, physical constitution, psychological temperament, age, and bio-region. In one […]
How to Help – Apr. 12, 2019
“Instead of a road map, our experience gives us trail-blazing skills. It gives us a sense of the geology of the borderlands: where springs are likely to be found, where gentle slopes may give way to dangerous cliffs, which passes may offer a thoroughfare and which are likely to be dead ends. The errors and […]
Friendship – Apr. 10, 2019
“Perhaps our most common experience of priesthood—and often our most powerful one—is found in friendship. In friendship, desire and opportunity combine to allow us the truest knowledge of another person we are ever likely to get. In old friends we can see the flaws as well as the good points… accept that they, like us, […]
