Blind Hope
Expectancy and joy filled my heart as I arrived at Dayspring Silent Retreat Center to lead our first in-person open retreat since the pandemic closed our doors. The theme was “seeding hope in transition,” a theme that fired my prayer for a long time preceding this October weekend. What I quickly realized at the start […]
National Recovery Month Donations Matched, L’Arche Job Openings
“September is National Recovery Month. We’re all in recovery from something. Join our special $25k challenge and help support transformative, long-term, healing recovery community. Thanks to a generous supporter, all gifts in September – National Recovery Month – will be matched dollar-for-dollar (up to $25K). In this long-haul COVID pandemic, long-haul authentic healing community is […]
Nonjudgmental Awareness – Sep. 9, 2021
“Holiness is not an achievement; it is a Grace. A Grace called Awareness, a grace called Looking, Observing, Understanding. If you would only switch on the light of awareness and observe yourself and everything around you throughout the day… clearly, exactly as it is without the slightest distortion or addition, and if you observed this […]
Detachment
Suddenly my summer garden has become lush and over-abundant. Nine-foot-high butterfly bushes bending with the weight of their purple blossoms, the late blooming hostas, towering jasmine vines, black-eyed Susans brightly appearing in new places, knockout roses in full bloom and still budding, and a veritable jungle of ferns. I go outside early for quiet time […]
