Actually Creating – May 25, 2023
“We do not experience ourselves as gift until we are engaged in the act of creating. The confirmation of a person as gift acknowledges what is obvious, but it does not give enough attention to what is not as evident—the unknown potential in a person that can be brought into existence only through the exercising […]
Holiness – May 11, 2023
“Holiness is not an achievement; it is a Grace. A Grace called Awareness, a grace called Looking, Observing, Understanding. If you would only switch on the light of awareness and observe yourself and everything around you throughout the day… clearly, exactly as it is without the slightest distortion or addition, and if you observed this […]
Stirred to Gratitude – Apr. 27, 2023
“Again and again I am stirred by some experience of tenderness, some simple act of gratuitous kindness moving from one to another, some quiet deed of courage, wisdom, or sacrifice, or some striking movement of unstudied joy that bursts forth in the contagion of merry laughter. I know God is with me.” –Howard Thurman, Meditations of […]
If We Listen – Apr. 25, 2023
All experience strips us of much except our sheer strength of mind, of spirit.All experience reveals that upon these we must not finally depend.Brooding over us and about us, even in the shadows of the paradox, there is something more—There is a strength beyond our strength, giving strength to our strength.Whether we bow our knee […]