Friendship – Apr. 3, 2020
“Friendship transcends disappearance: an enduring friendship goes on after death, the exchange only transmuted by absence, the relationship advancing and maturing in a silent internal conversational way even after one half of the bond has passed on.” –David Whyte, Consolations
Sickness and Sadness Happens
Sickness happens, and sometimes sickness leads to death. This is not how we want life to go. We prefer life, and then more life, and then even more life still, please. We want whatever is good and pleasing to increase daily, hourly, moment by moment—blessed multiplication! Is this not what God intends for us as […]
Quietness – Feb. 17, 2020
Inside this new love, die.Your way begins on the other side.Become the sky.Take an axe to the prison wall.Escape.Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.Do it now.You are covered with thick cloud. Slide out the side. Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest signthat you have died. Your old life was a frantic runningfrom silence. The […]
A Life Worth Living – Jan. 20, 2020
“If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long. And every now and then I wonder what I want them to say. Tell them not to mention that I […]
