Gifts – Aug. 10, 2021
“A midrash tells us that “when the world was created God made everything a little bit incomplete. Rather than making bread grow right out of the earth, God made wheat grow so that we might bake it into bread. In this way we could become partners in completing the work of creation.” Recognition. Repetition. Reverence. […]
From the Center – July 2, 2021
Walk to the well.Turn as the earth and the moon turn,circling what they love.Whatever circles comes from the center. -Jelaluddin Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, p. 279
A Certain Day – June 18, 2021
A certain day became a presence to me;there it was, confronting me — a sky, air, light:a being. And before it started to descendfrom the height of noon, it leaned over and struck my shoulder as if withthe flat of a sword, granting mehonor and a task. The day’s blowrang out metallic — or it […]
The Seedling’s Need – June 17, 2021
How shall the mighty river reach the tiny seed?See it rise silently to the sun’s yearning,sail from a winter’s cloudflake after silent flakepiling up layer upon layeruntil the thaw of springto meet the seedling’s need. Make tender, Lord, my heart:released through gentlenessThine own tremendous powerhid in the snowflake’s art. –Antoinette Adam, in Earth Prayers From […]
