Christmas is Coming
Today I feel softened by coronavirus time. What a strange thing to feel! For most of this year, March through November, I have felt quite the opposite. I felt hardened. Fear, frustration, anxiety, depression tore at my heart. I found myself hunkering down, stifled, and resistant. Amidst all the uncertainty my vision shrank. I was […]
Breath of Life – July 7, 2020
“Faith gathers in its sweep the life of every person, as indeed all that lives, and informs it with overtones of hope and anticipations of the future. It holds within its grasp the past and the future as a single moment in time. It does not seek to secure itself by the sanction of mind […]
Air is the Soul of the Earth – Aug. 23, 2019
The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life.Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful.Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it. –Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Deepening Connections – Aug. 15, 2019
“Whenever created beings inhale, they receive new life. And we receive God’s breath. Inhaling is normally passive. Whoever draws breath in this way breathes wrongly, for this is taking God’s gift for oneself. Whoever pauses before inhaling, experiences it as an overwhelming gift. “We are ever created anew,” says the psalmist.” –quoted by Gordon Cosby, […]
