Reading the Paper – June 3, 2020
I am not separate from the deaths, the demands,and the dealings, the disasters, the deceits,the demagogues, and the diplomacy. This is our incompleteness, our separation,our greed at work. Let me own my part.The world’s hunger is mine.The world’s helplessness is mine.The world’s failure to love is mine.Sober me to this connection in my life.Let the […]
The Promise of a Friend
What does comfort look like to you? In these times of uncertainty, when the chess pieces have been swept to the floor, we long to feel comfort. For me, it comes in the form of a sacred story. Seventeen years ago, early in the spring, my dad was hospitalized. After receiving the call from my mom, Eva […]
Wait Without Hope – Apr. 27, 2020
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hopeFor hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without loveFor love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faithBut the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.Wait without thought, for you are not ready for […]
The Fruit of the Tree – Apr. 10, 2020
No longer am IThe man I used to be;For I have plucked the fruitOf this precious tree of life.As the river flows down the hillsAnd becomes one with the sea, So has this weaver’s love flowedTo become one with the Lord of Love.Go deeper and deeper in meditationTo reach the seabed of consciousness.Through the blessing […]
