Greening Power
I am still reflecting on the silent retreat day at Dayspring this week. An unseasonably warm late-winter day, our time began with an overcast sky, a soft, warm breeze and bright birdsong. The cloudy sky was like a vast blanket of cotton balls scudding west across meadow and forest. Hildegard’s poem about the ever-creating Source of all […]
All-awakening – Dec. 24, 2020
The Spirit of God is a life that bestows liferoot of the world-tree and wind in its branches.She is glistening life, alluring, all praise,All-awakening, all-resurrecting. -Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Gabriele Uhlein, Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen
Air is the Soul of the Earth – Aug. 23, 2019
The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life.Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful.Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it. –Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
A Burning Spirit – Aug. 22, 2019
Who is the Holy Spirit?The Holy Spirit is a Burning Spirit.Like tympanum and lyre it plays them,gathering volume in the temple of the soul.The Holy Spirit isLife-giving-life.All movement. Root of all being.Purifier of all impurity.Absolver of all faults.Balm of all wounds.Radiant life, worthy of all praiseThe Holy Spirit resurrects and awakenseverything that is. –Hildegard of […]
