Not to Possess – Sept. 27, 2019
“It is sobering to look upon death and realize that life is the most precious gift we never get to possess but only to sample.” –Brother Thomas, This is the Day
Deepening Connections – Aug. 15, 2019
“Whenever created beings inhale, they receive new life. And we receive God’s breath. Inhaling is normally passive. Whoever draws breath in this way breathes wrongly, for this is taking God’s gift for oneself. Whoever pauses before inhaling, experiences it as an overwhelming gift. “We are ever created anew,” says the psalmist.” –quoted by Gordon Cosby, […]
A Gift – May 10, 2019
Just when you seem to yourselfnothing but a flimsy webof questions, you are giventhe questions of others to holdin the emptiness of your hands,songbird eggs that can still hatchif you keep them warm,butterflies opening and closing themselvesin your cupped palms, trusting you not to injuretheir scintillant fur, their dust.You are given the questions of othersas […]
