Fearful Longing – July 17, 2020
“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at […]
No Small Love
The teacher gathered together those whose hearts he had newly woven, and sent them out into the world. It was a rough-hewn start.* Dividing every household? Forgetting myself? Of all the teachings of Jesus, this is the one that loses me. Until now. A deeper look reveals something for this present time. A great yearning […]
Psalm 119:18-24 – Mar. 26, 2020
Open my heart’s eyes, that I may see The wondrous blessings of creation. I am a sojourner on earth; May I know myself also as a spiritual being. My soul is consumed with an intense longing To be blessed and sustained by You, O Divine Lover. May I not be a bearer of disharmony, one […]
You Are a Little World – Mar. 20, 2020
“By my bedside is a reproduction of a scroll by a Zen monk of the seventeenth century, a great calligrapher named Tetsugyu. The translation of the characters is “Self revealed: all things in heaven and earth exist in oneself.” The discovery that “all things are there” within the human heart is one of the great […]