Our Life in God – Nov. 7, 2022
“There is only one life, and that is God’s life… The purpose of our prayer is to help us find God, that we might consciously and gratefully live this life, and through our presence invite others to live it as well.” -James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere (Ave Maria Press, 1978), p. 25
The Circle – Nov. 4, 2022
“The circle, Carl Jung once said, is the classic symbol for wholeness, or God, and the circular path an analogue for the way toward it. We are always being drawn toward it, says June Singer, and yet “to fly straight into it would be like a moth darting into a flame of the Earth hurtling […]
Seen
I saw a mother breastfeeding on the train. She covered herself as the child took what she was freely giving. A sacred sharing. Her tilted downward gaze, the shape of her eyes, the curl of her lips, glowed as if transfigured. Time stopped for one eternal moment, and on that specific day, in that specific place, I […]
You Preside – Oct. 21, 2022
You preside over all our comings and goings, all our wealth and all our poverty, all our sickness and all our health, all our despair and all our hope, all our living and all our dying. And we are grateful. You are God of all of our impossibilities. You have presided over the emancipations and […]
