Being Responsible
Many years ago, when I was managing a seminary art gallery, someone offered us a collection of artworks inspired by the story about two brothers who had very different ideas about what to do with their lives.* The collection was enormous and the gallery was tiny, so we were only able to show a relatively […]
Soul Friends – Feb. 14, 2022
“Soul friends play an essential role in helping us to welcome in the inner stranger. Often meeting these parts of ourselves that have been abandoned again and again brings on tears of recognition and homecoming.” –Christine Valters Paintner, The Soul’s Slow Ripening (Sorin Books, Notre Dame, 2018), p. 55-56
One Sound
I thought it was a good idea to bring the painting of pregnant Mary to Dayspring. It was the beginning of the season of Advent, a time of spiritual gestation, and I had been invited to lead the silent retreat for Dayspring Church. This print hangs in my home. She’s great with child all year round. I’m always […]
Sunrise – Jan. 20, 2021
Sunrise, as you enter the houses of everyone here, find us.We’ve been crashing for days, or has it been years.Find us, beneath the shadow of this yearning mountain, crying here.We’ve been sick with sour longings, and the jangling of fears.Our spirits rise up in the dark, because they hear,Doves in cottonwoods calling forth the sun.We struggled with […]
