Resurrection Truth – Feb. 4, 2022
“Very often I will avoid the truth until my face goes red like a toddler avoiding her nap; until limp-limbed, she finally stops flailing and falls asleep and receives rest – the very thing she needs and the very thing she fights. When someone like me, who will go to superhero lengths to avoid the […]
Sacred Ground – Oct. 4, 2021
“Any place is sacred ground, because it is, potentially, a place of confrontation — confrontation with the divine Presence. As soon as we take off the shoes of “being used to it” and come alive, we realize: ‘If not here, where? When, if not now?’” –David Steindl-Rast, A Listening Heart: The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness […]
Conscious Darkness – Jan. 10, 2020
“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable […]
A Bed – Jan. 7, 2020
“A bed… is where you face your nearness to or farness from God. Whether you are in pain or not, whether you are an anxious person or not—even, I think, whether you are a religious person or not—a bed is where you come face-to-face with what really matters because it is too dark for most […]
