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The Sound of Call

Sometimes the call is faint, a distant chime across the water.  Other times, it rings out a deafening tone.  It never stops calling until someone, somewhere, picks up.  Shouting across the battlefield…to safety, to hope, to home.  Sometimes it comes softly with a palm-covered whisper, lover to lover.  Like a whistle from dad’s pursed lips, […]

A Healing Faith

In today’s gospel* Jesus challenges a faith that is defined more by adherence to human constructed proprieties than by an ever-expanding heart of love. He calls us to deep inner reflection, to listen and understand where we are coming from in our individual and corporate desires and ways and where God might be calling us […]

Listen to Yourself – May 26, 2023

“Choose a piece of work to do by listening to yourself—the still, small voice within that speaks to you in images, wishes, dreams and fantasies, your own conversations and the conversations of others. If you make a mistake and choose the wrong task, you will still learn something about yourself and can take courage and […]

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 […]