How to Love God

The words “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is God, the Lord is One” have been familiar to me for longer than I can remember. Of course, I tend to remember them better in the original Hebrew that I learned to chant as soon as I could talk, and Jesus seems to have learned a different […]

Part of Everything – May 27, 2021

“Our task is to drop our hostility and our estrangement from the creation and to begin to rest in it. To connect with it. To give it our friendship. Our work is to nurture creation, and to be nurtured by it. To meet God through it.” –Gordon Cosby, Seized by the Power of a Great […]

Friendship – May 26, 2021

“When we are given the vision of God’s justice for our nation, we will give our lives to further that vision. If you are not intimately involved with someone who is oppressed under the power systems of our nation, don’t let the week pass without getting to know such a person. That friendship could be […]

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 […]