Dayspring Retreat Schedule
Retreats and day events are held at Dayspring Silent Retreat Center throughout the year, but Spring is a particularly beautiful time of year to visit as the trees and flowers bloom and critters awake from their Winter domesticity. Check out the retreat schedule to see if you might want to over a weekend or day. Many […]
Song of Revolution
Advent is a time of waiting in some new way for Christmas. It’s difficult because so many traditions promote old ways. Some of them literally come out of storage boxes: the family nativity scene, tree ornaments and Grandmother’s recipes. It can be difficult to live into this season of possibility. Yet, I want to. I […]
Wilderness Work
Last Sunday, the Dayspring community blessed the opening of Earthen Hands, a pottery studio near the old farmhouse. It used to be a lawnmower shed, with the usual accumulation of machines, broken tools and extra parts. Now it’s clean, with two new windows and neat working spaces around Bud Wilkinson’s old kick-wheel – a gift […]
Self-Emptying Love
I feel such tenderness for the exchange in today’s gospel reading (Mark 10:17-31) between Jesus and a man who has a deep desire to do the right thing. I feel Jesus’ heart go out to him. The man comes to this “good” teacher no doubt having heard about the goodness Jesus has been projecting across […]
