What Sustains Us – Aug. 9, 2021
“We know that love nourishes us. When it is in our lives, we can bear pain, confusion and even death. This is why I link the food of the spirit, love, with the food of the body, bread. Both are staples. They sustain us.” –Gunilla Norris, Becoming Bread (Hidden Spring, 2003), p. xii
Entering Rest – June 5, 2020
This day is already past. I surrender it.When I think about tomorrow, I surrender it too.Keep me this night. With YouAnd in You I can trust not knowing anything.I can trust incompleteness as a way.Dark with the darkness, silent with the silence,Hep me dare to be that empty one—futureless,desireless—who breathes Your name even in sleep. […]
Cooking – June 4, 2020
I know as I create this mealthere is another cooking going on.It, too, is all motion, all process—an inner transformation.Help me to give myself awayas easily as this carrot, this new potato.I want my layers to peel away like the onion’s.I want to be as empty and cleanas the universe in a sweet green pepperwith […]
Reading the Paper – June 3, 2020
I am not separate from the deaths, the demands,and the dealings, the disasters, the deceits,the demagogues, and the diplomacy. This is our incompleteness, our separation,our greed at work. Let me own my part.The world’s hunger is mine.The world’s helplessness is mine.The world’s failure to love is mine.Sober me to this connection in my life.Let the […]
