Where Clinging Ends – Aug. 11, 2020
There, where clinging to things ends, is where God begins to be.If a cask is to contain wine, you must first pour out the water. The cask must be bare and empty.Therefore, if you wish to receive divine joy and God, first pour out your clinging to things.Everything that is to receive must and ought […]
Free to Sing – June 25, 2019
“The paradox of hospitality is that it wants to create emptiness—not a fearful emptiness, but a friendly emptiness where strangers can enter and discover themselves as created free; free to sing their own songs, speak their own languages, dance their own dances; free also to leave and follow their own vocations.” -Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out
Peel Away – July 6, 2018
“I know as I create this meal there is another cooking going on. It too, is all motion, all process—an inner transformation. Help me to give myself away as easily as this carrot, this new potato. I want my layers to peel away like the onion’s. I want to be as empty and clean as […]
