Shaped from Within – July 5, 2018
“Help me to sit here quietly. Help me not so much to plan as to listen. Help me to be informed, as in “shaped from within,” by Your will. My burden is so heavy. Yours is always light.” -Gunilla Norris, Being Home
That Now Place – July 4, 2018
“Help me cross into the present moment – into wonder, into Your grace: that “now-place,” where we all are, unfolding as Your life moment by moment. Let me live on the threshold as threshold.” -Gunilla Norris, Being Home
Mostly Water – July 3, 2018
“Inside, my body consists mostly of water, the way the globe, too, consists mostly of water. I came to be within the waters of my mother’s womb. So when I wash I like to remember that I am in my element…Your water…Your living water. Help me scrub my face free of its masks so I […]
Being Home, Waking Me – July 2, 2018
Selections this week are by Gunilla Norris, from her book of common prayers, Being Home. Gunilla lives in Mystic, Connecticut, where she works as a writer, meditation teacher and psychotherapist in private practice. These selections are related to practices for trusting our inner sense of knowing. You are waking me out of this sleepiness into […]
