A Friendship Blessing – Apr. 30, 2021
May you be blessed with good friends.May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.May you be able to journey to that place in your soul wherethere is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.May this change you.May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.May you be brought in to the real […]
Soul Friendship – Apr. 26, 2021
“In everyone’s life, there is great need for an anam ċara, a soul friend. In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are.” -John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom (Harper Perennial, 1998)
I Need to Breathe Deeply – Oct. 14, 2020
Eternal Friend,grant me an easeto breathe deeply of this moment,this light,this miracle of now.Beneath the din and furyof great movementsand harsh newsand urgent crises,make me attentive stillto good news,to small occasions,and the grace of what is possiblefor me to be,to do,to give,to receive,that I may miss neither my neighbor’s giftnor my enemy’s need. Precious Lord,grant […]
The Promise of a Friend
What does comfort look like to you? In these times of uncertainty, when the chess pieces have been swept to the floor, we long to feel comfort. For me, it comes in the form of a sacred story. Seventeen years ago, early in the spring, my dad was hospitalized. After receiving the call from my mom, Eva […]
