What You Desire – Feb. 24, 2023
“Because it is not what you are nor what you have been that God looks at with his merciful eyes, but what you desire to be.” -The Cloud of Unknowing, trans. James Walsh, Ch. 75, p. 265
Seen
I saw a mother breastfeeding on the train. She covered herself as the child took what she was freely giving. A sacred sharing. Her tilted downward gaze, the shape of her eyes, the curl of her lips, glowed as if transfigured. Time stopped for one eternal moment, and on that specific day, in that specific place, I […]
Your Reign of Unity – July 26, 2022
O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, Focus your light within us – make it useful: Create your reign of unity now – Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light, so in all forms. Grant what we need each day in bread and insight. Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,as we […]
Harmony of the Whole
Until this past Sunday we had not worshipped in the woods for two years. We had become accustomed to our hybrid church in-person and on Zoom. And yet, even though that technology would not be possible in the woods at Dayspring, the Spirit moved us to go. I knew my heart had withered in some way […]
