We Can Always Hope – Aug. 31, 2022
That peacewill rise like breadwe can always hope. That justicewill flow like winewe can always hope. That the tablewill make strangers kinwe can always hope. That our hopewill rise like breadwe can always pray. –Jan Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path, p. 31
Set Me Ablaze – Aug. 30, 2022
Touching the match to the kindling,it’s tempting to thinkI’m doing this simplyfor the heat and light,that it’s not an ancient ritualborne in my blood,that it’s not a desperate prayer:God set me ablaze. –Jan Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path, p. 5
Language to God – Aug. 29, 2022
“What I struggle with here is the language to God, language which engages me with God, opens me to God, and emerges out of my deepest self, I believe that when it comes to this sort of language, this language to God, we are all pilgrims.” –Jan Richardson, In Wisdom’s Path (Pilgrim Press, 2000), xiv
Stay – Mar. 25, 2022
… You cannot know it now,cannot even imaginewhat lies ahead,but I tell youthe day is comingwhen breath willfill your lungsas it never has before,and with your own earsyou will hear wordscoming to you newand startling.You will dream dreamsand you will see the worldablaze with blessing. Wait for it.Still yourself.Stay. –Jan Richardson, from “Stay”, The Cure […]
