Bakerwoman God – June 16, 2021
“Bakerwoman God, I am your living bread, strong, brown Bakerwoman God. I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. I am your rising bread, well kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth hands. I am bread well-kneaded. Put me in fire, Bakerwoman God, put me in your own bright […]
The Sacred Tree – June 15, 2021
Earth Prayer Hey! Lean to hear my feeble voice. At the center of the secret hoop You have said that I should make the tree to bloom.With tears running, O Great Spirit, myGrandfather, With running eyes I must say The tree has never bloomedHere I stand, and the tree is withered. Again I recall the […]
The Seed and the Sower
Seeds don’t need very much. Good soil, moisture, and sunshine will do just fine. Tiny miracles built to do one thing, and to do that one thing well. They’ve been practicing their earthen dance for the longest time. On a South Carolina summer day, I was the little kid who tore into the fresh cut […]
One Household – Apr. 23, 2021
The dark around us, come,let us meet here together,members one of another,here in our holy room,Here on our little floor,here in the daylit sky,rejoicing mind and eye,rejoining known and knower,Light, leaf, foot, hand, and wing,such order as we know,one household, high and low,and all the earth shall sing. –Wendell Berry, Sabbaths, “X”, p. 58
