Sweet Darkness – Jan. 3, 2023
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweetconfinement of your alonenessto learn anything or anyonethat does not bring you alive is too small for you. –David Whyte, The House of Belonging, p. 23
I Believe – Dec. 23, 2022
I believe for every drop of rain that fallsA flower growsI believe that somewhere in the darkest nightA candle glowsI believe for everyone that goes astraySomeone will come to show the wayI believeI believeI believe above the storm the smallest prayerWill still be heardI believe that someone in the great somewhereHears every wordEvery time I […]
Waiting: The Seedbed of Hope
Everywhere I go, people are busy with their cell phones: scrolling through emails, muttering messages, playing games or watching some video snippet. Filling time with our cell phones is now possible, and so we do it because others are doing it. On the Metro, in line at the grocery store, or sitting in a doctor’s […]
The Guest House – Nov. 2, 2022
This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still, treat each guest honorably.He may be clearing you outfor some new delight. The […]
